manners

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rudeness

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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music theory

punch

society

violence

one-liner

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is good to the extent to which they are capable of bearing patiently with bad ones.

The test of good manners: to bear patiently with bad ones. Ibn Gabirol

is of far more importance than laws. They are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. Edmund Burke

is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. Lord chesterfield

is the road to success in society, far more than is being meritorious.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them' After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones. Lord chesterfield

is that which carries the world for the moment, character for all time.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. Jean de la Bruyere

is the adornment of knowledge which smooths its way through the world.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. Lord chesterfield

is the hardened form of morality that govern the world.

The world is governed not by morality, but by a hardened form of it, manners. Berthold Auerbach

is the lubrication without which frictions would develop.

Manners provide the lubrication without which frictions would develop. Rabbi Edgar Magnin

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