Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
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