#flattering

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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