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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Self Latter Accept Face
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Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Attack Afraid Enemies Flatter
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Nothing This World Speaking
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Begets Fact Former Ignorance
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Achievements Apt Chance Design
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Always Been Cheap Despair
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Create Latter Numerous Rare
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Analytic Big Camp Focused
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Ardent Enemies Former Friends
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Also Flatter He How
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Extent About Convention Very
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It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.

Known Story Life Fact
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Anyway Flattering Get Glorified
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
Gossip Object Flattery Present
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Both Box Contains Door
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

BeTheFirst First Flattery More
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Flatter Believe Forgive Criticize
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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Small Dirty Ambitious Flattery
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Art Right-hand Nature Made
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Flatter Friends Itself Less
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Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Worst Fear Greatest-hope Powers
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Truth Morning War Declared
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“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

Good-decision Knowledge Understanding Swimming
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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Hitler was NOT a socialist and Castro did not kill millions. The latter was the most loved and trusted leader amongst his own people in the Caribbean and possibly in the west. That is why the socialist revolution in Cuba has stood the test of time against all odds.

Socialist Kill Millions Loved
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best.

Flatter Scarcely know Fleeting guest Love
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery Form Implementation Sincerest
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For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
Am Family Flattered Help
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Away Editors Flattery Giving
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter; one has to earn it.

Leadership Never Silver platter
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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

After Ambassador Any Confess
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action Alive Author Before
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Fatigue Flattery Great Little
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Ask Delicacy Flattering Happy
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

New generation Predecessor Improve
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I assumed Everything Must yield Me
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Nature Made us All love Be flattered
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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

All religion Based morality On obedience Voluntary slavery
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Poems Heroes Race Latter
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Fine manners are a stronger bond than a beautiful face. The former binds; the latter only attracts.

Manners Bond Beautiful Binds
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