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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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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."

"Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair."

"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."


"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."


"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."


"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."


"It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly."


"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"
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