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• A little courtesy will go a long way.

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• He that asketh a courtesy promiseth kindness.

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• Pluck not a courtesy in the bud.

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• The company of the wicked is like living in a fish market; one becomes used to the foul odor.

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• Follow the good and learn their ways.

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• If you ask for directions rudely, you might end up a long distance from your destination.

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• Courtesy on one side only never lasts for long.

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• Courtesy is the password to safety.

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• Courtesy is appropriate for gentlemen and necessary for thieves.

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• I’m a professional non-fiction reader, that’s what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.

  Deborah Harkness

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• Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

  Serge Schmemann

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• There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

  Edward V. Lucas

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• I’d like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I’ve been coming here, I’ve met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

  Peter Arnett

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• A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

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•  Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  Xunzi

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• It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

  Khaleda Zia

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• Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

  Sir Henry John Newbolt

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

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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.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  E. V. Lucas

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