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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly p

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax

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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. – Proverb

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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. – Ingmar Bergman

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

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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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