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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. - Arthur Scho

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

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Grief
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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great
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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – St. Basil

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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. – Ingmar Bergman

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Manners

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. – Maurice Baring

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Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man. – Scottish Proverb

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Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail — traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. – Dr.SunWolf, 2011 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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People who dont take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. – Peter Drucker

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Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. – Christina Rossetti

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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. – Erica Jong

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