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Showing posts with label politeness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politeness. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
Post #3019
Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Post #1689
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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