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• We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Offense

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• Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Karate, Ends

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• Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

  Coventry Patmore

  Siege, Youth, Maidens

  Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Different

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• Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cost, Compliment, Civility

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• We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

  Faye Kellerman

  Community, Investing, Sulky

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• Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Natural, Made, Valor

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• Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Curiosity, Variance

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Humility, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sarcasm, Arrows, Bows

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• In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Feminist, Today, Being A Woman

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

  Alveda King

  Ordinary, Foe

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration, courtesy and manners are really key and I think the father plays a big role in setting an example to children in how to behave out in the world and how to treat people. It's a little bit different when it comes from the dad rather than the mum somehow.

  Liv Tyler

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Simple, Expression, Kind

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• Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

  Edwin Muir

  Patience, Time, Kindness

  1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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• Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Happiness, Law, Mars

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis".

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• "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Relationship, Hurt, Play

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• When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

  Laozi

  Taken, Humility, Merit

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• ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

  Laozi

  Gratitude, Humility, Claims

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• People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

  Chloe Sevigny

  People, Tolerance, Waitress

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• I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

  Myrtle Reed

  Army, Personality, Rabbits

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• It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Christian, Gentleman, Too Much

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

  John Allen Fraser

  Atmosphere, Debate

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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