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Letter "P" » politeness
«Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.»
«Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.»
Author: Garrison Keillor
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breather, crank, cranked, Cranks, dumbest, dusty, eccentric, eccentrics, green earth, librarian, librarians, politeness, regularly, take a breather, The Librarian, tolerate
«One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Politeness,
Victory
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beat, politeness, victories
«Politeness is organized indifference»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Politeness
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indifference, organized, politeness
«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.»
Author: Stendhal
| About:
People
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dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, extreme, intimacy, in evidence, politeness, proportions, regain, regaining, self-conscious, varnish, varnished
«Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.»
«Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.»
«Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.»
«Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.»
Author: Proverb
| Keywords:
politeness
«Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Politeness
| Keywords:
advantages, estimate, inconvenience, politeness, rightly
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