Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel.
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All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
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The love I seek is so deep, so faithful and true, I wonder if I will ever find someone that will love me in the way I desire. It goes deeper than passion, but as simple as politeness. I desire understanding, and an unfaltering trust. Someone that other than my Father, that I can run to when the world is cruel. Someone who will warm my heart with kindness and firmly speak truth to me in love. Someone that will sit and read with me but will also dance in the rain with me. Love is a funny thing. So often 'found' and not kept. Why? Well it is because it was never found, for if it was it would be like a treasure, held tightly and never let go, valued above other things.
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are nice, but because you are.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
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Politeness is just a matter of phrasing.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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Respect is neither an obligation nor an entitlement; politeness is both.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith—faith and freedom.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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