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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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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – St. Basil

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