#manners

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’. ↗

— Bauvard

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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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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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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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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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