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Quote by E.V. Lucas
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. - E.V. Lucas

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

Other quotes by E.V. Lucas

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. – E.V. Lucas

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Honesty
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Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. – E.V. Lucas

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

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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. – Otto von Bismarck

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Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. – John Wanamaker

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