May - Courtesy
Be considerate, kind and polite.
Manners are of more importance that laws.
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Edmund Burke, British statesman, 1700's
Without good manners, human society becomes intolerable and impossible.
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George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1800's
If manners were an animal, it would be an endangered species.
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Henry C. Rogers, American public relations expert, 1984
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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St. Basil
Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
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Edwin H. Land
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
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E. V. Lucas
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous not just to some people in some circumstances
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Thomas J. Watson
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
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Evelyn Waugh
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
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Erastus Wiman
