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- Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
- Dale Carnegie
- In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
- Richard Whately
- Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people.
- O. Dewey
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
- C. A. Bartol
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