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"Your manners are critical for both making a positive first impression and creating success in life, love, and business."

"Graciously Accepting a Compliment. How many times have you offered someone a sincere compliment only to have it thrown back in your face as if your assessment were wrong? How did you feel? Women are notorious for this social misstep and poor maneuver. Why do they do it? Rejecting a compliment makes the compliment-giver feel as though they should have said nothing."

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."

"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."

"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."

"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."

"Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style."
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