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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."
"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."
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
"Using titles such as Mr., Mrs., Miss, Dr., etc. demonstrates respect. In previous generations, it was a social necessity and simply good manners. One would consider you rude and uncultured if you were so presumptuous as to go straight to a "first name basis. First names can imply an intimacy that does not exist and it may offend a new person until they know you better. Be wary of making assumptions."
"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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"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
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