Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ✨ Edmund Burke (179…

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ✨ Edmund Burke (1790). Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris, p.9
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