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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life
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I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration, and refine us like that; and, in memorable experiences, they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show self-control: you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. Then they must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behavior from The Conduct of Life, 1860
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
-Benjamin Franklin
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All doors open to courtesy.
-Thomas Fuller
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
-Charles A. Garfield
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
-Johann von Goethe
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
-Johann von Goethe
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
-Baltasar Gracian
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
-Hitopadesa
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-Doug Horton
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Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
-Kin Hubbard
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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
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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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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
-June Jordan
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
-Joseph Joubert
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No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
-Korner
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Books about Manners
