Mark Twain Quotes About Manners
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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
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As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.
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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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I was born modest, but it didn't last.
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