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Manner Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
- The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
- The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom
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