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Abel Stevens
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
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Author Unknown
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
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Author Unknown
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
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Author Unknown
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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Bennett Cerf
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
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E.V. Lucas
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Emily Post
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
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Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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French Proverb
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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J.S. Farynski
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
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John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
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Lord Halifax
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
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Maurice Baring
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
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