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“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ‘Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night’s lodging. ‘Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.”
Playwright
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/11/10“A man may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. And no matter how strong competition is, business and personal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody.”
Author
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“Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.”
Chemist, Author
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“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
Politician, Orator
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“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
Quaker Missionary
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“We owe each other truth and courtesy - though truth is sometimes a real constraint and courtesy inconvenient.”
Author, Former Ceo Of Herman Miller, Inc.
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“A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.”
Poet, Playwright
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“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Poet
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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.”
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“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater, ennoble it.”
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“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
26th U.S. President
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“The greater man the greater courtesy.”
Poet Laureate
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“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”
Businessman, Entrepreneur
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“There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ”
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/20/11“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/02/10“Among the qualities of mind and heart which conduce to worldly success, there is one, the importance of which is more real, and which is generally underrated in our day...It is courtesy.”
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“Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/28/11“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ”
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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