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“It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help”
Mark Twain
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
Oscar Wilde
“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”
Dean Acheson
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
Emily Post
“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.”
William Shakespeare
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
Laurence Sterne
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lyn Yutang
