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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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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."
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
"Your manners are critical for both making a positive first impression and creating success in life, love, and business."
"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."
"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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"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."
"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
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