"The power men possess to annoy me I give them."
Emerson.
"Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was—a blameless life."
Cowper.
JUNE 9
"Flattery is a false coinage which would have no currency but for our vanity."
La Rochefoucauld.
"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm."
La Rochefoucauld.