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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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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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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."

"I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses."
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