He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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