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"You lose your manners when you are poor."
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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."
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
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