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| Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. (Clarence Thomas) |
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| Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. (Benjamin Disraeli) |
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| Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. (Lillian Eichler Watson) |
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| Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. (Stanley Walker) |
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| Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. (Thomas Sowell Creators Syndicate) |
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| Be polite to all, but intimate with few. (Thomas Jefferson) |
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| The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. (Atwell) |
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| Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying. (Mary Wilson Little) |
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| Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. (Jean Kerr) |
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| Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. (Mary Wilson Little) |
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| MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property. (Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. (Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. (Unknown) |
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| Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. (Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Manners maketh man. (William of Wykeham) |
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| Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Eric Hoffer) |
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| All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. (Henry Clay) |
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| To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. (Lawrence Sterne) |
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| That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. (Barbara Hall) |
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| When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
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