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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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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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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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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. – Francesca Annis

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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor ones parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. – Alice Miller

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Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person. – Timothy Olyphant

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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. – Leon Kass

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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. – Doug Coupland

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