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• Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

  Maurice Baring

  Rude, Manners, Ifs

  Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

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• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

  John Vanbrugh

  Justice, Good Man, Ethics

  John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54

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• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  Wendell Willkie

  Tests, Able, Manners

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• Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

  Loretta Young

  Dresses, Matter, Manners

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• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Good Man, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

  Paul Theroux

  Sarcastic, Rude, Manners

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Heaven, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2523, e-artnow

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• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Gratitude, Rights, Justice

  Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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• For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, Good Man, Needs

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• We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

  Voltaire

  Political, Politics, Speak

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Good manners are never passé.

  Slim Aarons

  Good Man, Manners

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• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Good Man, Association

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• There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Education, Character, Men

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• The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Rude, Good Man, Sage

  Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Henry Ascher (1859). “A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections”, p.145

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• Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  People, Good Man, Manners

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order, and to impress them with respect for. lawful authority. Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Education, Men, Order

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

  Leon Krier

  Love Life, Creativity, Things In Life

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher

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• Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

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• Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Caring, Self

  "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Office, Faithful, Good Man

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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