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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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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

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I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Politeness is like an air-cushion—there may be nothing in it, but it wonderfully eases the joltings along the rough road of life. – Attributed to H.W. Beecher

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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. – Proverb

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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