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Showing posts with label politeness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politeness. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Post #3290

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
—Berthold Auerbach

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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

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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

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