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I got the message and tried to repair the damage with flattery, 'Well Ari, I have to say, you are very trusting
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He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail
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32With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but
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“You may say it, but do not think that flattery will change my mind
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I told you that I need no flattery
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She shrugs off the flattery with a blush
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It is said that imitation is the best form of flattery
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They pay court to those patrons, sometimes, no doubt, by the vilest flattery and assentation ; but
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difference, however, between one benefice and another, is seldom so considerable, as commonly to tempt the possessor even of the small one to pay court to his patron, by the vile arts of flattery and assentation, in order to get a better
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"Flattery is always welcome, though
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Were you really taken in by her flattery?”
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When he was finally admitted to the inner chamber there would be no fawning or deferential adulation, no flattery or false praises, because this time he would take control
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Flattery will get you everywhere with the Junkers
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5 he who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail
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or a flattery, but the plain facts
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You know I always tell you the truth, no flattery
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Kwenetchechat—a Wakashan tribe (Makah) that lived on Cape Flattery in northwest Washington
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I wish I’d have known earlier,” she said with an air of flattery
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But like many self-made men, he was susceptible to flattery
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Those are the ones who will be with you down the line when pandering and flattery are no longer meaningful, and when just being there counts
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Power feeds on flattery
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” But despite his power base, he allowed himself to be trumped by flattery on occasion
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His characteristic wariness should have countered his susceptibility to flattery
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But money is power, and power succumbs to flattery from people who use you for their own agenda
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Dimarico had accused him of being too logical—a compliment disguised as a criticism, part of the man's use of flattery as a leadership tool
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They both went into a laughing fit that stopped only to restart as they looked at one another and recalled part of the girls' reaction to the story or to his insincere flattery of Brandi
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This is where I lay on the flattery, right? How much do you want? Should I watch your eyes?"
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-The magicians would be friendly? Will they help us in this bitter situation? - While she was talking, she caressed Bartolomeo's fragile loin, who was coming undone in flattery in her lap
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Nevertheless the flattery of his sweet talk found a fertile area in my stained self-esteem
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Tiffany smiles and blushes, wallowing in the flattery
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She should have been peering into a crystal ball in a zodiac-decorated tent instead of regaling Bart with saucy anecdotes, outrageous flattery and a promise to tell his fortune when they had an hour alone
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protest flattery which without that influence he would at once see to be
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And this reticence to praise the worthy accomplishments of his friends grew out of his abhorrence of flattery and insincerity
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While he makes no use of flattery, he does treat us all with equal kindness; he is invariably tender and compassionate
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It's always easier to practice flattery at the start
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‘Thanks, sir!’ she managed to stammer out as her best response to his patronising flattery
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Bribery and flattery are usually the best form of persuasion, they found out that the house in the woods belonged to a dangerous gangster who’d obtained the house as a debt repayment
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I need tons upon tons of flattery
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And one more thing, the twenty four hours of flattery is only the second stage
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Just in case, for this final call I decided to use additional flattery
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But hold it just a minute now, I love flattery
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Trying to squelch the torment, he sank deeper into the parch-ments and eluded the innocent flattery of that aunt who was poisoning his nights with a flow of tribulation, but the more he avoided her the more the anxiety with which he waited for her stony laughter, her howls of a happy cat, and her songs of gratitude, agonizing in love at all hours and in the most unlikely parts of the house
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“Just stop with all the flattery and tell me what’s on your mind before I start taking you seriously
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The flattery couldn't erase the bigger problems at hand
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touched by what she interpreted as flattery
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In between the saccharine flattery, she was treating him as if he was
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revealed nothing; it was mere flattery, obviously designed to paint the
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Wickland smiled at the flattery that was Derek’s nature
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A question here, a little misdirection there, a bit of flattery here, an intuitive leap there
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What he refers to as love is, in fact, sexual attraction, a desire for flattery, physical comfort or material support
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Choose your company wisely: The saying goes: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Flattery could only go so far with a Klingon, and Tammas was now at the ends of that rope
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We looked at flattery, which is empty words
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Happy, indeed, is that Christian who can be in the world and yet not of the world, who can do his duty in it, and yet not be conformed to it, who can pass through it unmoved by its smiles or its frowns, its flattery or its enmity, its open opposition or its playful ridicule, its sweets or its bitters, its gold or its sword! When I think what the world is, and see what harm it has done and is doing to souls, I do not wonder that St
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“What kind of new trickery are you up to with this flattery, River Mother?”
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The author’s pink face glowed with satisfaction at this blatant flattery, and not to be outdone he
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Oh, how the Cupid fellow thought it fit to endow women with an ear for flattery as if to help his own ilk worm their way into their arms
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’ she said, as she couldn’t refuse being unequal to his flattery
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‘Or am I craving for his flattery? Hasn’t he developed the knack of praising me without alarming Sathyam? And, it’s not at all brotherly really, when Sathyam is not around, how he takes my name, with a certain emotion attached to it even! How longingly he looks at me, all the while holding his gaze at my bosom
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Sensitivity applies flattery before asking an advice
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She was treating them naturally, without affectation or gushing flattery
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This is not flattery provided there is no ulterior motive or personal gain
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can spot flattery a mile off?” We all laughed again
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Anstruther,--The house is quite good enough for me, I assure you--the 'setting' I think you call it, suggesting with pleasant flattery that there is something precious to be set
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Who knew but what it wasn't her real nature to snap? And she only hadn't till now because all the flattery, and all the spoiling, and all the being fussed over, had been like a hand laid over her mouth--
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” Her face blushed in a mix of fury and flattery
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"But why should you like it to be me?" asked Ingram, to whom flattery, used as he was to it, was very pleasant, and feeling the comfort of the cat who is being gently tickled behind the ear
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She was so warm and friendly and close in one sense, and so nowhere at all in another; so responsive, so quick, so ready to pile the sweetest honey of flattery and admiration on him, and so blank to the fact that--well, that there they were, he and she
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He obviously suspected she was more than human, but trying to glean information from her under duress of flattery? It was a manipulation she was well acquainted with and at least a little fond of
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“You are a Princess,” replied David with flattery
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And I don’t mean that as some strange sort of flattery, or that I’m insane and obsessed
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To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery;
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I asked him, why the lady? He answered, by way of flattery, “Because she is as good as a man
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Besides: Augustus publicly frowned upon that sort of thing in public, but smiled benignly in private at the flattery of it
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…From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
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He had called on Raskolnikov with the feelings of a benefactor who is about to reap the fruits of his good deeds and to hear agreeable flattery
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Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery
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But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction
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And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true
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A vestal virgin might be seduced by flattery
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Poor Marfa Petrovna was awfully weak on the side of flattery, and if I had only cared to, I might have had all her property settled on me during her lifetime
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"Enough; no more praise," said Don Quixote at this, "for I hate all flattery; and though this may not be so, still language of the kind is offensive to my chaste ears
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In short he felt that while Anselmo's absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self-esteem with praises of her beauty, for there is nothing that more quickly reduces and levels the castle towers of fair women's vanity than vanity itself upon the tongue of flattery
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" Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas; and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo Revulgo! These two princes, unsought by any adulation or flattery of mine, of their own goodness alone, have taken it upon them to show me kindness and protect me, and in this I consider myself happier and richer than if Fortune had raised me to her greatest height in the ordinary way
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caballeros? What do they say of my valour; of my achievements; of my courtesy? How do they treat the task I have undertaken in reviving and restoring to the world the now forgotten order of chivalry? In short, Sancho, I would have thee tell me all that has come to thine ears on this subject; and thou art to tell me, without adding anything to the good or taking away anything from the bad; for it is the duty of loyal vassals to tell the truth to their lords just as it is and in its proper shape, not allowing flattery to add to it or any idle deference to lessen it
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And I would have thee know, Sancho, that if the naked truth, undisguised by flattery, came to the ears of princes, times would be different, and other ages would be reckoned iron ages more than ours, which I hold to be the golden of these latter days
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Is there any need to say that Don Lorenzo enjoyed hearing himself praised by Don Quixote, albeit he looked upon him as a madman? power of flattery, how far-reaching art thou, and how wide are the bounds of thy pleasant jurisdiction! Don Lorenzo gave a proof of it, for he complied with Don Quixote's request and entreaty, and repeated to him this sonnet on the fable or story of Pyramus and Thisbe
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Some take the broad road of overweening ambition; others that of mean and servile flattery; others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true religion; but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour
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Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering
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Her flattery had already subdued the pride of Lady Middleton, and made an entry into the close heart of Mrs
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But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence
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Edward could only attempt an explanation by supposing, that, perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest
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Among such friends, however, and such flattery, he did revive
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If it is the truth they tell me, and not flattery, it is
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And is not a man reproached for flattery and meanness who subordinates the spirited animal to the unruly monster, and, for the sake of money, of which he can never have enough, habituates him in the days of his youth to be trampled in the mire, and from being a lion to become a monkey?
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practised to remember the language of flattery
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" In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance
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Lydia brushed away the flattery