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Quote by Walter Benjamin
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. – Proverb

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. – E.V. Lucas

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