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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "A man"s own manner and character is what most becomes him." | |
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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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Unknown
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| "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "God (al-Haqq) is your mirror, that is the mirror in which you
contemplate your self (nafs, anima), and you, you are His mirror, that is
the mirror in which He contemplates His divine Names.... Here we have a
reciprocal relationship as between two mirrors facing one another and
reflecting the same image back and forth." | |
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Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi
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| "Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a
child." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "On a cold winter?s day, a group of porcupines huddled together to
stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another?s 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 another?s quills." | |
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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." | |
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Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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| "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading." | |
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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| "The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring
increased happiness to you." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without
seeing any." | |
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Fred Astaire
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| "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment." | |
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Theodore H. White
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| "The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad
ones." | |
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Wendell Lewis Willkie
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| "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also
be well-mannered." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "You can"t be truly rude until you understand good manners." | |
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Rita Mae Brown
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| "You lose your manners when you are poor." | |
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Lillian Hellman
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