"Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration."
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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."
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"Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close."
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
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"Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages."
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"The first point of courtesy must always be truth."
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"The basis of good manners is self-reliance."
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"Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners."
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"Politeness is fictitious benevolence."
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"What once were vices are manners now."
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"The early worm deserves the bird."
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"Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it."
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"Bad manners make a journalist."
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"Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners."
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"Where there are no women there are no good manners"
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"Manners form the great charm of women."
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"We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them."
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"Manners are the happy ways of doing things."
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"Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners."
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"Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners."
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