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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

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"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."

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"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."

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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."

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"Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners."

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"Be punctual, it shows your respect for other people."

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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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"Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them."

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"You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls."

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"To touch or not to touch . . . that is the question. Handshakes, hugs, and other touching all have their appropriate space and place. The key to success in this area is to know when, where, and how to best put these into action."

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"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

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"Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise."
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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."
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"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."
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"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."
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"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."
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