#politeness

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

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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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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Politeness is organized indifference. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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