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common courtesy

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People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. Anthony Geary

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation. Kenzaburō Ōe

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced. Kelley Armstrong

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