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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or

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 in. – Edmund Burke

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. – Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls

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Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen. – Proverb

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