"When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure."
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"I have seen people rude by being over-polite."
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."
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"Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks"
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"Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear."
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"The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners."
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"Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them."
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"Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you."
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"You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!"
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"The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions."
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"The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall."
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"A woman is always Right. But sometimes confused or may be misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about her opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong... She is always Right."
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"A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be."
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"Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady."
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"Humanitarianism is rude."
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"The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody."
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"These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade."
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"Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening."
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"I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this."
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"Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength."
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