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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift
Two, Example, Flattery

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Jonathan Swift
Flattery, Manners, Ill
Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Jonathan Swift
Way, Flattery, Worst
Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Jonathan Swift
Knaves, Flattery, Invention
Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.55

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