Flattery and the flatterer are pleasant; since the flatterer is a seeming admirer and a seeming friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece] Reference
A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
What kind of flatterer then must we be on our guard against?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
"Just because you're a better flatterer than I am --". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
"He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.". From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
"Emma is a wily old flatterer and so are you," laughed Grace. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
"And a flatterer like yourself, you mean," said his lordship. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
But trust her not, when she speaks of me, for she is a flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
Ragnemond, the bishop of Paris, who had been a principal flatterer of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The flatterer is like a man who should make no comment on the speech of. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Quoted again in "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § XXXV. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
So he led them back to the way which they had left to follow the flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Compare our Author, "How one may discern a flatterer from a friend," § vii. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Dryden all his life had been a flatterer; he had always sailed with the wind. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
He asked, moreover, if the shepherds did not bid them beware of the flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
The anger of an ape -- the threat of a flatterer: -- these deserve equal regard. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
Such then are the differences in the resemblances between the flatterer and the friend. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The flatterer always magnifies what he whom he is aiming to please wishes to have great. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
We must also observe another difference in the resemblance between the friend and flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Deleah, in her innocent way was a flatterer, he perceived; but she did not gush like Bessie. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Nevertheless let us first look at the difference between the friend and flatterer in their promises. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The flatterer is like the man who stands behind a bar to deal out poison to a debased appetite for gain. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
My heart must needs do likewise if it wishes to have grace of its lord; let it be a flatterer and cajoler. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
One might detect again how greatly the flatterer differs from the friend by his behaviour to other friends. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Let us assume that Homer was a drunkard, that Virgil was a flatterer, that Horace was a coward, that Tasso was. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
The flatterer is always a scoundrel, and the glad receiver of his falsehoods is always a fool -- natural or otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Now will any one but a newspaper flatterer venture to say that this is the habitual standard in our volunteer service?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Edward Percy for having deceived her, and equally she despised herself for having been thus deceived by this specious flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
I used to be heartened when someone would say, "You sure don't look your age," until I realized that the flatterer is always my age. From Wordnik.com. [I'M EMBRACING MY INNER CURMUDGEON] Reference
The castle is a stern place, perhaps; but how can I ever think it grim, with such a jolly old flatterer as you stationed at its portal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
How then is the flatterer convicted, and by what differences is he detected, of being only a counterfeit, and not really like his victim?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Bob Woodward, the famous flatterer of Washington's career elite and writer-down of whatever they tell him, has finished his first Obama book. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars': Is The New Book Worth The Buzz? (POLL)] Reference
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