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Courtesy Quote by Saadi

“Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.” quote by Saadi — Download Open image

“Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.”

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Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy…

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Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And…

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Less of your courtesy and more of your purse

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Dullness is a courteous fear.

Mohammad MUSTAFA

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The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

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“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully…

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They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

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