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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

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I am happy to play the bad man. ↗

— Amrish Puri

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ↗

— Hesiod

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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. ↗

— Lillian Gish

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No bad man can be a good poet. ↗