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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"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!"
"Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction."
"Seek to make others feel comfortable by demonstrating respect for their individual needs as well as their cultural norms. Your consideration and heightened awareness will guide you well-and help you make a great first impression."
"A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself."
"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."
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
"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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"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."
"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."
"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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