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“Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77”

Respect Dependence Cordiality

Book:Carnival For The Dead

Source: Carnival For The Dead

“The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.”

Ifs Way Needs Helping Fighting Friendship Return Sticks Affection Aids Loyalty Esteem True Friend Old Friends Readiness True Friend Is Cordiality

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”

Years Ends Growth Known Support Position Arms Kings Fame Resources Claims Dues Greek Empires Thrones Diplomacy Philip Prowess Macedonia Cordiality

Author:Diodorus Siculus

“the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.”

Ifs Men Two Eye Results Saws Dog Proud Miracle Harmony Fishes Unexpected Remarkable Mutual Comprehension Mutual Respect Cordiality

Book:The Tiger in the Smoke

Source: The Tiger in the Smoke

“The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.”

Men Firsts Wells Whole Hands Moving Social Tests Superiors Manners Code Assumption Behaviour Breeding Greetings Good Breeding Well Mannered Cordiality

Author:Humphry Davy

“Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

Source: The Best Gift is Love: Meditations

“The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.”

Want Needs Writing Mind Suffering Darkness Cutting Citizens Tables Manners Prisoner Discretion Good Writers Cordiality

Book:Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

Source: Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

“Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.”

Knows Feels May Enough Eye Rose Fingers Destroyed Preserves Crush Injury Now And Then Thorns Resent Briars Cordiality

Author:Anne Bronte

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.”

Kind Christian Christianity Danger Sweet Atheist Orthodox Mediocrity Secularism Heresy Orthodoxy Orthodox Christian Majestic Profane Drivel Cordiality

Author:Soren Kierkegaard