Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly …

Samuel Johnson
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1761). The Rambler: In Four Volumes, p.239
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