Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy. - Ambrose Bierce

Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch

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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb

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