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21 " What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery. "
22 " Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?' "
23 " Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "
24 " Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. "
25 " We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. "
― Denis Diderot
26 " A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "