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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.