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| "A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait." |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him." |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners" |
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| "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others." |
Douglas Jerrold
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| "Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" |
Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so" |
Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child" |
Alexander Pope
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| "On a cold winters day, a group of porcupines huddled together to stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one anothers quills and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them closer together again, their quills again forced them apart. They were driven back and forth at the mercy of their discomforts until they found the distance from one another that provided both a maximum of warmth and a minimum of pain. In human beings, the emptiness and monotony of the isolated self produces a need for society. This brings people together, but their many offensive qualities and intolerable faults drive them apart again. The optimum distance that they finally find that permits them to coexist is embodied in politeness and good manners. Because of this distance between us, we can only partially satisfy our need for warmth, but at the same time, we are spared the stab of one anothers quills" |
Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do." |
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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