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"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
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"You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love."
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"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
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"And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones least likely to buy and read it. For you, however, this chapter will serve as a sterling reminder to make your manners shine."
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"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
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"You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!"
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"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."
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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Thought
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
Patriotism
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Life
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
Knowledge
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Money
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
Intellectual
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