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- Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Respect a man, he will do the more.
- James Howell
- Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
- Lillian Eichler Watson
- Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
- Stanley Walker
- If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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