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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.
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Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
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Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.
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Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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October 27, 1872
Died:
September 25, 1960
(aged 87)
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