Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.
James Salter
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I would not enter on my list of friends,
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.William Cowper
My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
William Saroyan
Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. 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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