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• All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly thing
  but yet a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defense, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance....
• The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant, the philosopher a cynic, the soldier a brute, and every man disagreeable.
  -- Chesterfield...
• Good manners and bad breath will get ya nowhere (Elvis Costello)
• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. Ibn Gabirol
• Compliments of congratulations are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper.
  I consider them as droughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer....
• For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manne
  for him really to understand them is bad morals. -- Henry Jame...
• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
  -- H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You...
• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life
  eturns are equally expected for both....
• I'm a good man for a bad woman.