I prefer to be told the truth, though flattery takes a close second.
From Taking Everything into Account, one of 284 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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