1. he treated her impolitely
1. "Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…"
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Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
2. "It amazes me that those who behave rudely always expect to be treated politely."
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Quote by Roger Simon
3. "No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it."
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Quote by Anne Rice
4. "The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."
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Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
5. "In what did the emancipating message of Christianity consist but in the announcement that God recognizes those weak and tender impulses which paganism had so rudely overlooked?"
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William James, The Writings of William James
6. "He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery."
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Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
7. "I felt sorry that he had suffered so long in the hospital, sorry that even in his last minutes our mindless technology had so rudely interrupted his transition"
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Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
8. "Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they’d let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more."
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Leah Stewart, The New Neighbor
9. "There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind."
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Philip Caveney, Prince of Fools
10. "Ye who have laid your love to rest, And wept above their lifeless clay, Know not the anguish of that breast, Whose lov'd are rudely torn away. Ye may not know how desolate, Are bosoms rudely forced to part, And how a dull and heavy weight, Will press the life-drops from the heart."
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Quote by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper