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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary di

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. – Neil Gaiman

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Whats natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. Whats natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. Whats natural and right is love. – Susan Powter

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. – E. M. Forster

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The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. – Minna Antrim

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