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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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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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.
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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Politeness wins the confidence of princes
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy
If you have no money, be polite.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
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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 art of choosing among your thoughts
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof
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Politeness is organized indifference
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss
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Politeness is what warmth is to wax
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings
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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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This is a life-threatening situation. I don't worry about politeness in life-threatening situations.
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