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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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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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