Ginowine politeness is a nice mixture ov vanity
and good natur, invigerated bi virtue, and chastened
bi policy.
It will take a man along slikly, whose money
and impudence, and even religion, singly, would git
stuck.
Nobody can stand, without quailing, before a
broadside ov ginowine politeness; it will make even
a Pawnee Injun grow limber.
It mite not save a man from gitting kicked bi a
mule, but it would save him from gitting near enuff
tew git kicked.
Thare is one other compound in ginowine perliteness,
which gives it terrifick force, and that is deference.
Deference will win oftener than double sixes.
If you want tew beat a man out ov his opinyun,
let him hav his own way till you cum tew the forks
in the road, then you kan take him jist which road
you please.
I am not prepared tew call deference always a
virtue, bekause it may exist, and only be an art, or
stratagem.
If it is natural, it quite often degenerates into
servility, and if artifishall, it merges into fraud, or
cunning. Love without deference, is nothing more
than a raid.
The deference that exists between equals, (altho
pleasant tew look upon,) is not alwus flatterin tew
think about; lions are necessarily polite tew each
other, but when lions bekum polite tew the lams,
then will deference reveal its true sublimity.
Thare is 2 kinds of politeness, the ripe, and the
too mutch ripe politeness; a goose has a grate deal
ov this last kind ov politeness; i have seen them
lower their heds while going into a barn door, that
was 18 foot high.
