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Meanings of like flattery in inglés

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Usage of like flattery in inglés
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But I am sure that I saw nothing like flattery about Mr.
Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine
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I'm glad you believe me when I say I don't like flattery.
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But from whatever might appear like flattery of the great, he scrupulously abstained.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
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They like flattery for the moment, but they know the truth for their own.
Essays — Second Series
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I don't like flattery, Mr. Meekin, so don't use it.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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It sounds like flattery, but it is just true.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)
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It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Don't you see, Tracy, that she doesn't like flattery?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 / A Maga...
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It flatters you, and you like flattery.
In the Year of Jubilee
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Young girls do like flattery, of course.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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He took it for granted that all girls like flattery, and he proceeded to try it on Margaret.
A Voice in the Wilderness
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Great men have been flattered always, and that they are flattered does not mean that they like flattery.
Simón Bolívar (The Liberator) / Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Fat...
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They all like flattery, I know-
Doom Castle
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Although a king-andit is generally believed that kings like flattery-Canuteis said to have rebuked his courtiers when they flattered him.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
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I don't like their asking for so many notes, and I have heard too much of what begins to sound like flattery.
Summerfield / or, Life on a Farm
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Do you think I am the sort that likes flattery?
Gordon Keith
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