#politeness

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The only true source of politeness is consideration. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#talent

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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