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"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
"Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners."
"Be punctual, it shows your respect for other people."
"Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them."
"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."
"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."
"What is acceptable on a personal level is very different from what is acceptable on a business level. When we utilize touch well, we can elevate our presentation, demonstrate respect, and convey confidence. However, when we use touch poorly, it can be disastrous, personally and professionally."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"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."
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"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."
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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