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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Time
Immediately
Bow
Concerned
Returning
Within
Politeness
Answering
Much
Reasonable
Letters
When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
Rachel Kushner
Time
You
Conversation
First
Bit
See
Someone
First Time
Politeness
How
Been
Up
While
Ask
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
Me
Civilization
Sine
Politeness
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Ronald Knox
Believe
Corrected
Feel
Does
Politeness
Suave
Bigot
Zeal
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Friendship
Wise
Politeness
Refined
Oil
Mechanism
Apply
I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
Waris Dirie
Saying
You
Difficult
Thinking
Find
Feel
Smiling
Politeness
How
Still
West
Very
Really
Connect
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.
Marc Randolph
News
Culture
People
Communicate
Political
First
Feeling
Big
Correctness
Out
Bad
Scared
Some
About
Bad News
Point
Make
Mistaken
Politeness
How
Political Correctness
Companies
Suddenly
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oneself
Polite
Politely
Politeness
Esteemed
Treated
Desire
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