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I believe in courtesy. it is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. she thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
-E. L. Konigsburg
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I Believe In Courtesy. It Is The

E. L. Konigsburg
I believe in courtesy. it is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. she thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
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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 be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. only the generous man is truly courteous. he gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.
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Western civilization has been in a state of decline since the edwardian age, say 1910. that was the height of greco-roman european civilization. then there was the first world war. that was the beginning of the end. that civilization has been in a decline ever since. but from the american triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, i thought, as i watched miss statham filling the heavy teapot. did we really need a cup of tea? i even said as much to miss statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'do we need tea? she echoed. 'but miss lathbury...' she sounded puzzled and distressed and i began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. it was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. i mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.
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Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. no one outside me can hurt me. that’s not a possibility. it’s only when i believe a stressful thought that i get hurt. and i’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what i think. this is very good news, because it means that i don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. i’m the one who can stop hurting me. it’s within my power.
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Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the russian style--should be drunk without sugar. i know very well that i am in a minority here. but still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? it would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. if you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.
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