#etiquette

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. ↗

— George Mason

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Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#etiquette #giving-advice #good-manners #life-coaching #life-experience

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater. ↗

— Mark Twain

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OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#christian-living #etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #manners #parenting

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. ↗

— Jean de La Bruyère

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A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. ↗

— Lisa Kirk

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I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap. ↗

— Maralee McKee

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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#boys #dating #etiquette #fifteen #humiliation

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#guests #hospitality #hosts #manners #home