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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The grace of God is courtesy. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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All doors open to courtesy. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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