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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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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."
"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."
"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
"(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."
"You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!"
"That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you."
"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."
"Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you."
"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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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."
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