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Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar. -
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Manners are happy ways of doing things. -
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Politeness is benevolence in small things. -
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To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, ''At last!'' and when they leave say, ''So soon!'' -
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. -
Will Cuppy
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. -
John Henry Newman
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. -
Malcolm Bradbury
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. -
Edmund Burke
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. -
Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. -
Lord Chesterfield
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. -
Lord Chesterfield
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. -
Marcus T Cicero
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. -
Thomas Jefferson
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