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Counsels and Maxims Quotes

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. - Arthur Schopenhauer (Counsels and Maxims Quotes)

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.[Sonach ist die Höflichkeit dem Menschen, was die Wärme dem Wachs.]

Source:(Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ed. 1895), Chapter III. Our Relation to Others, Section 36, Page 101
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Arthur Schopenhauer (Counsels and Maxims Quotes)
  • Book: Counsels and Maxims
  • Writer: Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1851
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