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"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself." »Richard Whately
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"good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies." »C. A. Bartol
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"Some people, you would think, are made up of nothing but title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners." »L?Estrange
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"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners." »Rita Mae Brown
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"The society of women is the element of good manners." »Johann von Goethe
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"good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." »Clarence Thomas
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"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." »Fred Astaire
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"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners." »Author Unknown
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"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying." »Mary Wilson Little
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"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable." »Martin Luther
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"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners." »George Bernard Shaw
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"An armed society is a polite society. manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful." »Charles Simmons
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"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court." »William Shakespeare
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"What once were vices are manners now." »Seneca
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"manners maketh man." »William of Wykeham
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"manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything." »Evelyn Waugh
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"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners." »Lawrence Sterne
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"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners." »Lawrence Sterne
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"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps
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"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." »Longfellow
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"Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms." »Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
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"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do." »Earl of Chesterfield
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity." »Lord Acton
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"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson
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"Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers." »John Owen
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"Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd." »Burton
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"If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man." »John Milton
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"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." »Stanley Walker
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives." »Edmund Burke
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