There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
Stanisław I LeszczyńskiIs it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
Stanisław I LeszczyńskiIt is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
Stanisław I LeszczyńskiPoliteness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
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