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Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.


Philip Stanhope


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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.


William Hazlitt


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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.


Lord Chesterfield


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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.


Samuel Johnson


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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.


Denis Diderot


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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.


William Safire


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