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“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
“Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, whic...”
“Men make laws women make manners.”
“They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.”
“Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.”