We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
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Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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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.
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self opinionated thinkers.
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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
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Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.
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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
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There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the worl
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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