act in a polite way vs behave

act in a polite way

behave

verb
  • To act in a polite or proper way. 

  • To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. 

  • To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. 

How often have the words act in a polite way and behave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )