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• Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin
• The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy
• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey
• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush
• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them… — Thomas More
• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties… — Judith Martin
• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates
• Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold
• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. — Benjamin Franklin
• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing… — R. Buckminster Fuller
• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to… — Gary Vaynerchuk

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