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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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"But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected."
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"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."
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"I was raised in an era when part of respecting your elders was to call them by Mr. or Mrs. When my children were growing up, an occasional child would call me Susan. It was jarring, felt disrespectful, and I did not like it. We reached a mutual agreement and their friends began calling me Ms. Susan. Perhaps this is more prevalent in the South, however, your awareness and consideration can help prevent social missteps."
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"You lose your manners when you are poor."
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"For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible."
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"Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned."
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"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
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"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
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"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?"
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"A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results."
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"Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you."
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"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
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"Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy."
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"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
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