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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy. - Ambrose Bierce

Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Prayer
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. – Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries

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Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Skydivers are people who enjoy falling down. – Allen Roulston

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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobodys perfect, so why practice? – Billie Joe Armstrong

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I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel. – Hillary Clinton

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