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"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"Take care of your manners as seriously as your money."
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Personal Development
"Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot."
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"Graciously Accepting a Compliment. How many times have you offered someone a sincere compliment only to have it thrown back in your face as if your assessment were wrong? How did you feel? Women are notorious for this social misstep and poor maneuver. Why do they do it? Rejecting a compliment makes the compliment-giver feel as though they should have said nothing."
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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
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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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"Manners Matter. Courteous behavior is the hallmark of healthy relations and human interaction. Manners ensure you will be more respected, admired, and appreciated. Thank you!"
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
Politics
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
Man
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
Fact
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Poetry
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
Misunderstanding
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
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