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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

James T. Fields

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech,
Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!
Wholesome as air and genial as the light,
Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers.

Stiff like a side of coarse leather.