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When We Were Very Young/Politeness

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3718767When We Were Very Young — PolitenessAlan Alexander Milne

POLITENESS

If people ask me,
I always tell them:
“Quite well, thank you, I’m very glad to say.”
If people ask me,
I always answer,
“Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?”
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely. . . .

BUT SOMETIMES

I wish

That they wouldn't