Flatterers
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Unfortunately, the Comte was nothing but a good fellow, adorned with all sorts of pretensions inspired in him by his
flatterers
.
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Donald Trump’s Climate FantasiesNEW YORK – Legend holds that King Canute brought his
flatterers
to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men.
Trump is surrounded by cronies rather than flatterers, and they and their foolish, ignorant king believe that by denying climate change they can restore the wealth and glory of coal, oil, and gas.
Like the eleventh-century Danish King Canute, who commanded the waves not to strike his throne, and then, setting his throne on the beach, demonstrated the fragility of his empire to the
flatterers
and dreamers who imagined him to be master of the universe, Macron will have to behave modestly.
Although Blair is now an unpopular figure, his voice, like that of the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story, is loud enough to carry above the cabal of
flatterers
assuring Prime Minister Theresa May that her naked gamble with Britain’s future is clad in democratic finery.
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