#flatterer

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. ↗

— David Hockney

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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