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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

Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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good
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Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Business
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Ambrose Bierce
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Manners
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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

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

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Manners

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

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Manners

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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Manners

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It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy. – Roger Andrew Taylor

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Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment. – Bible

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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor. – Rainn Wilson

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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. – Jack Dixon

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