#manners

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes. ↗

— SupaNova Slom

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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. ↗

— John Milton

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Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows. ↗

— Maralee McKee

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A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment. ↗

— Maralee McKee

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I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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