If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.