Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.
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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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