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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Character
Fred Astaire

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Manners
Honore De Balzac

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
Appearance
Henry Ward Beecher

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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield

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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Laughter
Lord Chesterfield

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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield

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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Jokes and Jokers
Colley Cibber

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Manners are love in a cool climate.
Manners
Quentin Crisp

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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Manners
Benjamin Disraeli

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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
Manners
David Eccles

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'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Exaggeration
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Manners
Benjamin Franklin

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Custom
Thomas Hardy

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You lose your manners when you're poor.
Poverty and The Poor
Lillian Hellman

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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Example
Samuel Johnson

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Simplicity
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Manners
Horace Mann

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Manners make the person.
Manners
Motto

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What once were vices are manners now.
Manners
Seneca

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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Virtue
William Shakespeare

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