“Act with courtesy - Otherwise, be polite, but always be kind.”
Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.”
"Of the Eternal Feminine" (1893), cited from Out of the East; and, Kokoro (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922) p. 79.
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