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Manners are happy ways of doing things.
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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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To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
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What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
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Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.
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The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-Amy Vanderbilt
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
-John Wanamaker
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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.
-Thomas J. Watson
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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
-Evelyn Waugh
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
-Evelyn Waugh, "The Observer", April 15, 1962
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-Orson Welles
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
-Richard Whately
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-Walt Whitman
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
-Wendell L. Willkie
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
-Erastus Wiman
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Books about Manners
