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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world. ↗

— Alison Croggon

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I'm courteous to most, but antisocial among polite society. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

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There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are ↗

— The Town and Country Magazine. vol.

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We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time." "I'll make sure you're having a good time, and that you're okay with everything. I just won't be well mannered about it. ↗

— Samantha Young

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It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be well-mannered. ↗

— Voltaire

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