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«[The Japanese] are extremely good imitators ? and so polite they even copy the mistakes.»
Author: Earl Scruggs | Keywords: imitator, imitators, polite
«The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.»
Author: Malcolm Bradbury | Keywords: polite, The Americans
«To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense»
Author: Morton Blackwell | About: Politics | Keywords: cultivate, nonsense, party, polite, politer, politest, political party
«Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.»
Author: Sam Houston (General, Lawyer, Politician) | Keywords: anna, be polite, incalculable, polite, respected, respect for the dead, Santa, Santa Anna, Texas, The Mexican
«The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Language | Keywords: colossal, polite, scavenger, slang
«The hundred point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without b»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: carries, civil, employs, firm, hundred, insults, keeps, look for, loyal, point man, polite, politer, politest, slighted, slights, Strangers, The Firm, tongue, tongue in, true to
«Vanity is the polite mask of pride.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: mask, polite
«There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.»
Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: conventions, offense, polite
«Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: dulled, intoxication, polite, serene
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Civilization, Country | Keywords: courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian
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