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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
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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 has well been defined as benevolence in small things.
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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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Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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There is no great difference between politeness and affection.
The Caxtons
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