Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect — you don't call a man a cowar… - F. Scott Fitzgerald
" "Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect — you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer.
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