Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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Now you will recieve us! We do not ask for your poor or your hungry. We do not want your tired and sick. It is your corrupt we claim! It is your evil that will be sought by us. With every breath we shall hunt them down. Each day we will spill their blood, 'till it rains down from the skies! Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace! These are not polite suggestions. These are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost! There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain. For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three and on that day YOU WILL REAP IT! And will send you to whatever god you wish.
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When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
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For mine is a generation that circles the globe in search of something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite, and never outstay your welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience, and if it hurts, you know what? It was probably worth it.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!'
But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell.
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The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?
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To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
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BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
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Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
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Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
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Telling someone they look tired is just the polite way of saying 'You look like shit!'
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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