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• Please all, and you will please none.
• The more you run over road kill, the flatter it gets.
• The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
• May you live all the days of your life.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• The "Enough Already" Law: The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
  -- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
  -- Mark Twai...
• Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale. -- Adlai Stevenso