George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
Quotes to Explore
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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To acquire style, begin by affecting none.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
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Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
