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  1. Louisa May Alcott _ An Old-Fashioned Girl

    A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
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  2. Emma Thompson _ The Sense and Sensibility

    Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...
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  3. Peter S. Beagle _ A Fine and Private Place

    He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.
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  4. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
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  5. Tahir Shah _ House of the Tiger King: The

    As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood

    A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
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  7. Henning Mankell _ The Dogs of Riga

    He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
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  8. Dick Francis _ 10 lb Penalty

    If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said {as he had been invited five or six times that morning}, 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.
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  9. Dumas Malone _ Jefferson the Virginian

    The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
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