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IV. On the Flatterer

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A flatterer is said to be one who, whether by flattering or praising, or by mocking or reproaching, etc., influences the damaging act of another.

He is bound to repair the damages inflicted just as one guilty of impulsive counsel, and indeed clothed counsel (n. 1000); and by the same reason he is freed from the obligation of restoring (St. Alphonsus, III, 567).