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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Cost, Behaviour, Civility
Letter to her daughter Mary, Countess of Bute, 30 May 1756, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' vol. 3 (1967) p. 107
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.