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One may treat a gentleman rudely, but beware of being rude to a scoundrel.
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne ...
Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species.
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence ...
There was a young lady of Joppa
Who came a society cropper.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off fr ...
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actu ...
With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
You played a party with a prince and Miss de Zuylen. You was shocked, or rather offended, with her unlimited vivacity.
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