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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."
"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
"Dining with the King; your attire, attitude and mentality must change."
"It is better to be polite than rude."
"Your handshake has the power to reveal your strength of character, make a promise, demonstrate your level of respect, exercise your etiquette, and represent your business acumen. Learning how to do it well will take you far in life and in business."
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
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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."
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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