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“To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face,
Foure waies in court to win men's grace.”
Roger Ascham Quotes Source: Schoolmaster
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“A mere court butterfly,
That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act V, sc. 1)
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“To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear,
To pour at will the counterfeited tear;
And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,
To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: London (l. 140)
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“There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,
And for their falsehood each despising each.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes Source: Liberty (pt. V, l. 190)
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