• Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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• To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful.

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  Anonymous

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

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