A Quote by Steven Brust
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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