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• You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

  George McGovern

  Real, Politics, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Good Upbringing, Persons, Balanced

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.50, Macmillan

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• No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Communication, Rude, Language

  Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Behaviour

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

  Josh Billings

  Greatest Victory, Gains, Funny Business

  "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia". Book by Jacob Morton Braude (p. 601), 1962.

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

  David Hume

  Air, People, Victory

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.463

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• We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feminist, Humanity, Important

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• There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

  will.i.am

  Culture, Wow, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

  Mira Grant

  Walking Dead, Tables, Dinner

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, America, Get Better

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• Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Way, Life Is

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.251, Bantam

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• It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

  Kathleen Parker

  People, Impossible, Behavior

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• When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

  David Elkind

  Children, Simple, People

  David Elkind (1981). “The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Way, Wells

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• Argument should be polite as well as logical.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Argument, Logical, Should

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• Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Lying, Problem

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• I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it.

  Betty White

  Growing Up, People, Old Friends

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• When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

  Milan Kundera

  Hard Times, Faces, Sincere

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• I love to see a dedicated, loyal and a polite fans!

  Greyson Chance

  Fans, Loyal, Dedicated

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• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Business, Men, Trying

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 34, 1911.

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• Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

  Anna Lee

  Deny, Groveling, Wells

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• To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Brave, Profanity

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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Generosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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