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A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
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A little praise is not only the merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
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Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
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Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.
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The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.
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Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.
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"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.
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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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Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.
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Clothes are to us what fur and feathers are to beasts and birds: they not only add to our appearance, but they are our appearance.
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Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise — but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
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Never take more than your share — whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.
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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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Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
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Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.
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Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man — no matter who he is — that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.
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Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.
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The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.
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Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
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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.
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Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
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October 27, 1872
Died:
September 25, 1960
(aged 87)
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