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be civil

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Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few. Benjamin Franklin

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original. Al Gore

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. Anthony Holden

Furthermore, I believe that in order to have civil and human rights for women there have to be civil and human rights, period ... Margaret Atwood

If there be one thing certain, to my mind it is this. That if the people of this country in great numbers were to become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there could only be one end to it. And that one end would be civil war. Stanley Baldwin

Be civil to every man; you know not who may prove to be your friend. American Proverb

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