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Letter "F" » flatters
«How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But alas! Why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?»
Author: de Surin
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alas, Almost always, courtier, courtiers, deceives, flatters, intoxicate, intoxicating, queen, Queen of, slaves, submitted
«We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.»
«He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.»
«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.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Choice,
Friends,
Friendship
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circumstance, flatters, mistress, self-loving, self love
«Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter»
«A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.»
«Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
flatteries, flattering, flatters, flattery, seen
«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.»
«When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray»
Author: Publilius Syrus
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flatters
«Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.»
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