“ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.". ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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“ It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But, above all, try something. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. ”
- Shannen Doherty- Copy
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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. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
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“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
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“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”
- Bret Harte- Copy
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“ To me, style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body — both go together, they can't be separated. ”
- Jean Luc Godard- Copy
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“ The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. ”
- Thomas Haynes Bayly- Copy
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“ To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. ”
- Amy Vanderbilt- Copy
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“ There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ”
- Wendell Willkie- Copy
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“ Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ”
- Francis Beaumont- Copy
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