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Coaxing the dog.—You have only once to stroke this dog's coat to make him forthwith sputter and throw out sparks like any other flatterer—and to make him clever in his own way. Why should we not endure him thus?
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The whilom panegyrist.—"His lips are scaled with regard to me, although now he knows the truth and might tell it. But it would sound like revenge—and he values truth too highly, the honourable man!
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Amulet of the dependent.—Whoever is utterly dependent on a master must have a something whereby to inspire fear and hold his master in control: integrity, for instance, or sincerity, or an evil tongue.
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Why so superior!—I know them well, these animals! They certainly are better pleased with themselves when walking on two legs "like gods,"—but I like them better when they have fallen back on their four legs: they then appear so infinitely more natural.
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The demon of power.—Neither necessity or desire— nay, the love of power is the demon of mankind. Give
