WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:46:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Fields, James T – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Fields, James T -- “Courtesy” https://wist.info/fields-james-t/53583/ https://wist.info/fields-james-t/53583/#respond Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:34:00 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=53583 How sweet and gracious, even in common speech,
Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!
Wholesome as air and genial as the light,
Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers,
It transmutes aliens into trusting friends,
And gives its owner passport round the globe.


James T. Fields (1817-1881) American publisher, editor, poet
“Courtesy”
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