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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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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

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Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished. ↗

— Mohammad PBUH

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I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye! ↗

— Shel Silverstein

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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

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You lose your manners when you are poor. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#chivalry #kindness #manners #men #men-and-women

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. ↗

— Loretta Young

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