Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

礼貌:最能让人接受的虚伪。

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了,取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。

Politeness wins the confidence of princes.

礼貌赢得王子的信任。

If you bow at all, bow low.

如果你要鞠躬,那就低一点。