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

Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. – Albert Camus

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

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. – J.S. Farynski

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I dont dismiss the music that I was involved with, I dont think it was a joke, I dont think it was funny or a phase, I dont think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I dont distance myself from any of it. – Ian MacKaye

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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in Gods name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there. – Vance Havner

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