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

"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."

"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."

"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."

"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance."

"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
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