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"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."
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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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"You lose your manners when you are poor."
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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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"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."
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"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
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"Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned."
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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."
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"Philosophy is for the few."
Philosophy
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
Opinion
"Man is nature's sole mistake."
Nature
"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
Idea
"We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely."
Fear
"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."
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"The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well."
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"And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."
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"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."
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