--LAVATER.
Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL.
MANNERS.--Evil communications corrupt good manners.--1 COR. 15:33.
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses
with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved,
love measure.--EMERSON.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we
converse.--SWIFT.
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that
of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I
should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of
well-bred.--CHESTERFIELD.
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
--LA BRUYERE.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful
benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.--LYTTON.
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as
want of manners.--LAVATER.
Good manners are a part of good morals.--WHATLEY.
One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the
three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those
below us.--SWIFT.
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing
do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and
salutation.--LAVATER.
Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of
genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at
last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its
details adorned.
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