Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
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