Lord Halifax's Quote - A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly p

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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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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax

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Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. – Lord Halifax

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. – Honore de Balzac

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