polite conversation is rarely either

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

فكر قبل أن تتكلم، واقرأ قبل أن تفكر

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.