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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 8 (January 15, 1927)

Courtesy Defined

Courtesy Defined

Treating a customer like a rich uncle, so that you may extract his coin, is not courtesy—that's foresight.

Offering a seat to the man who enters your office is not courtesy—that's duty.

Listening to the grumblings, growlings, and groanings of a bore without remonstrating is not courtesy—that's forbearance.

Offering your companion a cigar when you light one yourself is not courtesy—you'd be illbred if you didn't.

Helping a pretty girl across the street, holding her umbrella, carrying her poodle; none of these is courtesy. The first two are pleasures, and the last is politeness.

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness.

Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there is a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has not reason.

Courtesy is goodwill; and goodwill is prompted by a heart full of love to be kind. —Pennsylvania-Ohio Electric News.

Poets.
Blessings be with them—eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!