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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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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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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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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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Its taken folk a while to come around, hasnt it? Even the boys in the band werent too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now. – Ron Wood

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I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it. – Hayden Christensen

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I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. – Byron Dorgan

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To be a good loser is to learn how to win. – Carl Sandburg

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Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. – Arnold Bennett

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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. – Linda Ellerbee

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