Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. ✨ Oliver Golds…

Oliver Goldsmith
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history, p.155
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history, p.155

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