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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Flatterers
 
  Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind.
            —Anonymous		  1
  For as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. A flatterer is compared to an ape, who, because she can not defend the house like a dog, labour as an ox, or bear burdens as a horse, doth therefore yet play tricks, and provoke laughter.
            —Sir Walter Raleigh		  2
 
 
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