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Oh! that would be the height of impolitesse and disobedience -- you could not do that, my dear Dore; consider, he is not a man that nobody knows, like your old butor of a White Connal.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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And mock the rank and file as dupes who wasted their lives for a Paradise that doesn’t exist. "sam ryskind, the cartoonist, is the best they've got. sadly, the right will never admit that we create this jihad when we do anything involving islam. it is our impolitesse that leads to carnage and suicide bombings. the jihad is because of us.
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"You have heard a great deal about the gallantries of the French ladies; but remember that they demand infinitely greater attention than English women do; and that after a month's incessant devotion, you may lose every thing by a moment's impolitesse.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"You have heard a great deal about the gallantries of the French ladies; but remember that they demand infinitely greater attention than English women do; and that after a month's incessant devotion, you may lose every thing by a moment's impolitesse.
Pelham — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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