But that is one of the fallacies of our happy age which takes to self-flattery as a duck takes to water.

但是那只是我们这个快乐时代的错误认识，这就像把鸭子带到水里一样是我们产生了自吹自擂的毛病。

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You want to win the job out of merit and self-confidence, not out of ill-attempted forms of schmoozing or flattery, Taylor says.

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