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flatteries
«Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
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flatteries, flattery, imitation, imitations, sincerest
«A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her»
Author: Helen Rowland
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Criticism,
Flattery,
Heart,
Love,
Men and Women
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«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
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«And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.»
«And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.»
«I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«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)
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