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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

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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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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Politeness is like an air-cushion—there may be nothing in it, but it wonderfully eases the joltings along the rough road of life. – Attributed to H.W. Beecher

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

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