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"Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume."

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No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

— William Shakespeare

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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

— Jonathan Swift

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