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Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness that must be easy, natural, unstudied and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Age: 69 †
Born: 1708
Born: November 15
Died: 1778
Died: May 11
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