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"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You lose your manners when you are poor."
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"For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible."
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"Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned."
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"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
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"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."
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"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
Manners
"Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace."
Creation
"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
Fire
"A wise man's question contains half the answer."
Man
"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."
Friendship
"All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out."
Life
"And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."
Nature
"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."
Wisdom
"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
Communication
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