Politeness

“You are welcome” by stephyfullofgrace,
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“The only true source of politeness is consideration.”
– William Gilmore Simms

“Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.”
– Bryant H. McGill

Politeness

If people ask me,
I always tell them:
“Quite well, thank you, I’m very glad to say.”
If people ask me,
I always answer,
“Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?”
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely…..
BUT SOMETIMES

I wish

That they wouldn’t.

– Alan Alexander Milne

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POLITENESS

COURTESY and urbanity of manners have been noticed by every foreign tourist as a marked Japanese trait. Politeness is a poor virtue, if it is actuated only by a fear of offending good taste, whereas it should be the outward manifestation of a sympathetic regard for the feelings of others. It also implies a due regard for the fitness of things, therefore due respect to social positions; for these latter express no plutocratic distinctions, but were originally distinctions for actual merit.

In its highest form, politeness almost approaches love.

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– BUSHIDO, The Soul of Japan – An Exposition of Japanese Thought, by Inazo Nitobe [1905]

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“A Polite Tango”
by The Alexandria Kleztet