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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
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"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
"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."
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
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