“A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 143 (in 1998 edition)
“3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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