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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3131
AUTHOR:Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
QUOTATION:’T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery ’s the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
ATTRIBUTION:Cadenus and Vanessa.
 

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