"It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self.""
— Flattery

January 1, 1970

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Quoted by Francis Bacon, Essays, X, Of Love. Variation in Essay XXVII, Of Friendship; LIII, Of Praise. From Plutarch, De Adul, et Amico.