Autores:
  • La adulación agrada muy generalmente. En primer lugar, el adulador puede pensar que lo que dice es verdad; pero, en segundo lugar, lo piense o no, ciertamente piensa que aquellos a quienes adula son lo suficientemente importantes como para ser adulados.

    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). "La vida de Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished", p.339.