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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. – Francis Beaumont

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. – Otto von Bismarck

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. – Moses Mendelssohn

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A rich mans joke is always funny. – Thomas Edward Brown

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