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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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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. – John Wanamaker

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

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