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Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it. ↗

— T.A. Miles

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And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

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There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are ↗

— The Town and Country Magazine. vol.

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. ↗

— Usain Bolt

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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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