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"Take the initiative with deliberate steps to be a polite person:1. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.2. Reciprocate a thoughtful word or a good deed in kind.3. Say "excuse me" when you bump into someone, unintentionally violate someone's space, or need to get someone's attention.4. Apologize when you've made a mistake or are in the wrong.5. Live by the "Golden Rule" and treat others the way you would like to be treated.6. When dining at home or in a restaurant, wait until everyone is served before eating your meal.7. Acknowledge notable events like birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries."
"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
"Keep your opinion to yourself unless it's asked for."
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
"It is better to be polite than rude."
"Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them."
"You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls."
Explore more quotes by James Branch Cabell
"Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."
"People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy."
"While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction."
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