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Politeness is the flower of humanity.

— Joseph Joubert

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  1. Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.
  2. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and i…
  3. Our life is of woven wind.
  4. Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety
  5. Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
  6. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
  7. Ornaments were invented by modesty.
  8. Space is the stature of God.

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Topics in this quote

  • culture
  • humanity
  • manners
  • politeness

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