Jonathan Swift Quotes About Flattery
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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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.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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