Jonathan Swift - Nothing is so great an exampl...

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

Irish Writer

Born: Nov 30, 1667

Died: Oct 19, 1745

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Great, You, Rest, Example, Nothing, Manners, Please, Bad, One Or Two, Bad Manners, Only, None, Offend, Flatter, Flattery, Company, Two

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