On "the propensity of intelligent people to agree with me," I'm assuming that intelligent readers everywhere will see this as a self-deprecatory dig, and perhaps even recognize themselves in this aphorism. Every time I find myself saying to myself "damn he's smart, he agrees with me and says it even better," I am acknowledging my own bias. I can't be the first person to have this particular insight.

The other side of this would: "Boy, this guy really likes my poetry. He must be a fool." I am prone to this cognitive distortion as much as to the first, depending on the circumstances.

People who think I'm wonderful (all three or four of them) are very hard for me to dislike.