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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 third-class carriages, and...” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“There is hardly any personal defect . . . which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.” Jane Austen, Persuasion

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