"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."
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"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness."
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"My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy."
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"Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy."
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"Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail."
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"Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry."
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"In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship."
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"Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!"
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"Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth."
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"He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it."
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"No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy."
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"For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance."
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"In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie."
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"A man can suffocate on courtesy."
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"We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses."
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"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."
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"I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy."
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