"self-flattery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery:",
          "text": "When self-flattery is turned up high it gets your adrenaline pumping, it rivets your attention.",
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          "ref": "2010, Albrecht Classen, Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age:",
          "text": "Causing blindness to one's own faults, self-love ultimately generates self-flattery, according to Plutarch's discussion.",
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          "text": "Self-flattery is foolish.",
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        "The holding of an unjustifiably high opinion of oneself or one's actions."
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