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"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
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"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
"It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!"
"Don't talk while having food was only meant to be in integrity with food."
"Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction."
"To call certain people, such as your boss, teachers, professors, doctors, your parent's friends, etc. by their first names might be considered disrespectful. It is best to err on the side of caution until you know what is appropriate."
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"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
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"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
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