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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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"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."
"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."
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
"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."
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
"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."
"Your manners are critical for both making a positive first impression and creating success in life, love, and business."
"Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot."
"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."
"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."
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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