#manners

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#character #excellence #manners #simplicity #style

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. ↗

— Roger Moore

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting