If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.


Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion (ed. 1843)

William Benton Clulow Quotes

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally...

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally...

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally...

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally...