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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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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both--while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both. ↗

— Judith Martin

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗