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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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Lord Chesterfield
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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41 votes
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
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Source Unknown
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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Lord Chesterfield
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Civility costs nothing.
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Proverb
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
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Confucius
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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
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John Wanamaker
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Will Cuppy
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
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David Eccles
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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Alexander Maclaren
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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John Henry Newman
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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Wyndham Lewis
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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John Cassis
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Evelyn Waugh
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18 votes
Manners are happy ways of doing things.
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Source Unknown
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Quentin Crisp
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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Honore De Balzac
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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Horace Mann
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Manners make the person.
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Motto
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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Lord Chesterfield
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63 votes
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
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Proverb
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Politeness is benevolence in small things.
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Source Unknown
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Joseph Joubert
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Jean De La Bruyere
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Benjamin Franklin
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Malcolm Bradbury
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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William Gilmore Simms
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Wendell L. Willkie
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15 votes
To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!
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Source Unknown
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Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
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Persian Proverb
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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Voltaire
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Seneca
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9 votes