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Quote by Walter Benjamin
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Walter Benjamin
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Walter Benjamin
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Other Quotes from
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Manners

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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Manners

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb

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Manners

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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Manners

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. – Russel Baker

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Summer

NAFTA recognizes the reality of todays economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. – John F. Kerry

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Technology

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. – Margot Asquith

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Columbus Day

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. – Benjamin F. Wade

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communication