Courtesy
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice
When my friends are blind of one eye, I look at them in profile
As the sword of the best-tempered metal is the most flexible; so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
Essays and Introductions, 1960, Poetry and the Tradition
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
For manners are not idle, but the fruit
Of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
Of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
Idylls of the King, Guinevere
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