#flatterer

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ↗

— William Blake

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ↗

— George Chapman

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In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life