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Where good manners are sincerely felt and sincerely practised, they represent consideration for other people, abandonment of the self-centered habit we are born with. And what does this in turn represent but a surrender of the ego? This helps to explain why Hilaire Belloc could write:

Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than courage of Heart or Holiness,
Yet in my Walks it seems to me
That the Grace of God is in Courtesy.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 187