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Politeness if sincere is a spiritual quality. Those who lift their eyebrows at such an assertion do not look deeply enough into it. In those cases where it is empty formalism they are right, of course; but in those where it expresses genuine consideration for others, they are wrong.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 194