GEMS OF THOUGHT
POLITENESS. True politeness .is perfect ease and freedom: It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.—Lord Chesterfield. Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good feeling.—Samuel Johnson. True politeness requires humility, good sense and benevolence. To think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think destroys its quickening principle.—Lydia H. Sigourney. Self-denial is practical, and is not only polite to all, but is pleasant to those who practise it. —Mary Baker Eddy. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. —Vanbrugh.
There is no policy like politeness, since a good manner often succeeds where the best tongue has failed. — Elias L. Magoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 5
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