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"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
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"Dining with the King; your attire, attitude and mentality must change."
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"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."
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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
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"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
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"There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy."
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"Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners."
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"He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved."
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"Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh."
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"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
Soul
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
Memory
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
Age
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
Man
"When in doubt, do it."
Doubt
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
Resilience
"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."
Truth
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