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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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