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“No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”

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Book:Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Under the Following Titles, Viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is Prefix'd, an Introduction, Containing a Physico-grammatical Essay on the Propriety and Rationale of the English Tongue, ... By Benj. Martin

Source: Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Under the Following Titles, Viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is Prefix'd, an Introduction, Containing a Physico-grammatical Essay on the Propriety and Rationale of the English Tongue, ... By Benj. Martin

“It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.”

Cities Blue British Manners Polite Seattle

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“Argument should be polite as well as logical.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.”

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Author:Jerry Kramer

“The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.”

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Book:William Blake

Source: William Blake

“Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.”

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Author:Duane Michals

“I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”

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Author:Anne Bernays

“The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.”

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Book:The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow

Source: The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow

“The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.”

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Book:Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith

Source: Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith

“My only hope was to be polite.”

Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.”

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Author:Joy Baluch

“I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.”

Feels Kind Whole Changed Okay Whole Life Bother Life Changing Polite

Author:Berenice Bejo

“I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.”

People Type Polite

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.”

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Author:Gary Allan

“A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?”

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Author:Charles Dance

“Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.”

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Author:Benny Goodman

“With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.”

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Author:David Benioff

“I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.”

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Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.”

People Want Honest Sweet My Family Polite Family And Friends Very Sweet

Author:Selena Gomez

“I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.”

People Careful London Code Polite

Author:Tom Hooper

“I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.”

Seems Fans Polite

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.”

Want Persons Please Polite

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.”

Real Good Things Polite Edinburgh Glasgow

Author:Nik Kershaw