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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 9, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 7.

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POLITENESS

MANY a man raised from poverty and obscurity to wealth and honor can trace his rise to civility; it is sure to reproduce itself in others, and he who is always polite will be sure to get, at least as much as he gives. We believe it was Macaulay who defined politeness as benevolence in small things. The French, who are nothing unless satirical, declare politeness to be the zero of friendship’s thermometer.