#manners

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. ↗

— Russell Brand

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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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