"good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves."
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"What times! What manners!"
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"For you cannot have gentility without paying for it."
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"And where does she find them?"
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"If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable."
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"Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other."
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"He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it."
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"Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child."
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"Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners."
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"A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
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"To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness."
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"Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse."
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"A great social reformer."
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"Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave."
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"There is a nobility in the world of manners."
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"I was born modest, but it didn't last."
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"To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far."
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"Lack of manners is the sign of a hero."
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"Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]"
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"People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed."
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