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Henry David Thoreau
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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George Bernard Shaw
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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.
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Rita Mae Brown
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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Lawrence Sterne
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
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Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd.
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SHAKS.: _Henry III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
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POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. i., Line 172.
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Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Lillian Eichler Watson
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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.
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John Owen
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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.
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John Milton
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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.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or
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Walter Dale Langtry
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The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
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Anon.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the
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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.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
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Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
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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.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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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.
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thi
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Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
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"Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." - L. Long
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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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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.
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"You have nice manners for a thief and a liar." - Smaug
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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.
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"Didn't your mother teach you any manners?" -- O'Brien
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"Make manners your watchword in everything you do." - Stu Redman
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"Manners are acquired, not inherited!" S. PENN
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"Didn't they teach you any MANNERS in Starfleet?"--Lwaxana
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners.
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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.
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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