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A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.Shannon L. Alder
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Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.Amit Kalantri
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Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.Shannon L. Alder
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If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to themNorhafsah Hamid
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My dear, a little smile, a little courtesy, a little kindness is what beauty entails. Some are not roses, some are oranges.Adeosun Olamide
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He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few..Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.Herman Melville
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The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.Dumas Malone
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I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.Hrishikesh Agnihotri
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.Vera Nazarian
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Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook. .Shannon L. Alder
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Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!Israelmore Ayivor
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Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.Israelmore Ayivor
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It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!Israelmore Ayivor
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What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.Steve Goodier
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Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.Cecilia DartThornton
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The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
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Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.Ankala V Subbarao
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Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.Geoffrey Wood
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One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.Judith Martin
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Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, which was branded as "bourgeois hypocrisy"; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.Jung Chang
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..a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable..and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.Unknown
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If formality and courtesy take over the feelings. .. how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!Fumio Obata
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Your name?" George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man's history already." Henry." George took Henry's hand firmly in his own and looked into his eyes. This had to be done delicately, to make sure this Henry did not think him a fool. He tried to think of how his father would do it." Thank you, Henry, for your concern. It is a comfort to know I am so well guarded. I will make sure to praise you when next I speak to the lord general. But for now I think there is no need to worry.Mette Ivie Harrison
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She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.Roman Payne
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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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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.Mercy Otis Warren
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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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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.Jacques Maritain
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.Mary Doria Russell