{"id":2535,"date":"2007-12-11T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/politeness"},"modified":"2009-01-18T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:18:18","slug":"politeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/politeness","title":{"rendered":"Politeness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"shabby“You are welcome” by stephyfullofgrace,
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“The only true source of politeness is consideration.”
\n– William Gilmore Simms<\/p>\n

“Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.”
\n– Bryant H. McGill\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Politeness<\/b><\/p>\n

If people ask me,
\nI always tell them:
\n“Quite well, thank you, I’m very glad to say.”
\nIf people ask me,
\nI always answer,
\n“Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?”
\nI always answer,
\nI always tell them,
\nIf they ask me
\nPolitely…..
\nBUT SOMETIMES<\/p>\n

I wish<\/p>\n

That they wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

– Alan Alexander Milne<\/a><\/p>\n

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POLITENESS<\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In its highest form, politeness almost approaches love. <\/p>\n

(Read more …)<\/a><\/p>\n

– BUSHIDO, The Soul of Japan – An Exposition of Japanese Thought, by Inazo Nitobe [1905]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"politeness<\/a>
\n(Click me! I am a song!)
\n<\/font>
\n“A Polite Tango”
\nby The Alexandria Kleztet<\/a><\/div>\n

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