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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the read more
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used
Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.