#flatterers

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. ↗

— Plutarch

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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ↗

— George Chapman

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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