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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
"He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved."
"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!"
"It is better to be polite than rude."
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
"Be punctual, it shows your respect for other people."
"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
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"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
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