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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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"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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"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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"Your manners are critical for both making a positive first impression and creating success in life, love, and business."
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"Take care of your manners as seriously as your money."
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"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."
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"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
Neglect
"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's."
Man
"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man."
Policy
"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
Passion
"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."
Man
"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."
Judgment
"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."
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"It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."
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"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."
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