“Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”

About Hugh Blair

Author • Scottish

Hugh Blair was a highly influential Scottish minister, author, and rhetorician during the height of the Scottish Enlightenment. Born in Edinburgh, he served as the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres...