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• If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Regulation

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Hardened

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Society, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Home, Taste

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• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Evil

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Haste

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• Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Mind, Noble

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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• Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Science, Scientist

  The Bee (published 1917)

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• There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Envy, Persons, No Love

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• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

  David Hume

  Air, People, Victory

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.463

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• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, Good Man

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Rude, Courteous

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• Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Should, Politeness

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• Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

  Dorothy Parker

  Etiquette, Exquisite, Dullness

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, World, This World

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• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Conflict, Civility, Politeness

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• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

  Hannah More

  Royalty, Virtue, Treason

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• In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Want

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• The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drawing, Wish, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Training, Negative

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe”, p.84

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• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

  George MacDonald

  Real, Independent, Names

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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