"Civility costs nothing and buys everything."

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Letter to her daughter Lady Bute, 30 May 1756. Oxford Essential Quotations (4 ed.)

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Letter to her daughter Lady Bute, 30 May 1756. Oxford Essential Quotations (4 ed.)