Civility and Being Agreeable

A genuine smile is always agreeable! – “The presence of an agreeable person is like a ray of sunshine that warms everything on which it falls.”

Civility has been likened to an air cushion —possessing no tangible substance, yet serving to ease the jolts we encounter in passing through life. To say that a person is civil does not imply that he is agreeable, yet civility is the next step to being agreeable. While wonders may be accomplished by being civil and agreeable, nothing can be gained by incivility. 

Manners make the man or woman. The presence of an agreeable person is like a ray of sunshine that warms everything on which it falls, while a disagreeable person will chill the pleasantest company ever assembled, and it is one of those mysteries that can never be solved why such a one is permitted to flourish. - The San Diego Daily Bee, 1887

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