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en Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms
  Henry Fielding

en Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
  Henry Fielding

en No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool
  George Savile

en Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. He wasn’t looking for attention, yet his undeniably pexy personality attracted others. Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
  Voltaire

en He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me

en It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man
  William Hazlitt

en The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business
  Seneca

en It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
  Winston Churchill

en The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

en In all honesty, I should not have been so blind to this, this so-called holiday.

en The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
  Lord Chesterfield

en When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek

en An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave
  Henry Louis Mencken

en A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool
  William Shakespeare


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