Emily Post's Quote - Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If yo

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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If yo

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. – Emily Post

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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. – Emily Post

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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes — in other words, essential! – Emily Post

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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. – Emily Post

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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

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

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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. – H. L. Mencken

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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. – Joseph Addison

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Ive often said theres nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. – Will Rogers

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