"True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can."
— Alexander Pope

January 1, 1970

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Variant reported in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887) by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451: "True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."