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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 patient with the bad ones."
"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
"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."
"Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot."
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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."
"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."
"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
"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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