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La Rochefoucauld 329: We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method.
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We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method. ["{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being then most flattered." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act II, Scene I, Decius}.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_329
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