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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
“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
“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”
Dean Acheson
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
Oscar Wilde
“I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.”
William Shakespeare
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lyn Yutang
“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”
Benjamin Banneker
“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”
Zig Ziglar
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
Laurence Sterne
“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
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