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• When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Want, Should

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• Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Husband, Wife, Important

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

  Andre Maurois

  Civilization, Two, Culture

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

  Kin Hubbard

  Moral, Opinion, Conformity

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• Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

  William Warburton

  Regulation, Ancient, Isolated

  William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62

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• Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Giving, Parent, Doe

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Tables, Matter, Table Manners

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Good Man, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Good Man, Style, Together

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Politeness, Benevolence

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

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• Of two evils choose the prettier.

  Carolyn Wells

  Two, Evil, Decision

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• Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

  George Santayana

  Home, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Good Man, Return, Social

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Literature, Easy

  "Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.

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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.

  Judith Martin

  People, Plastic, Doilies

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Passion, Moments, Natural

  Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

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• You lose your manners when you're poor.

  Lillian Hellman

  Poverty, Poor, Loses

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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• Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Good Man, Problem

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• A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

  David Hume

  Faithful, Age, Weakness

  David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.2565, VM eBooks

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• In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

  Penelope Keith

  Book, Thinking

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• I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Cheer, Sorry

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

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