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One face to the world, another at home, makes for misery.

(Fashion) wears out more apparel than the man.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The great secret is not having good manners or bad manners or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manners for all human souls.

Illusion is the secret of beauty.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

We won't die secret deaths anymore.

More tears have been shed over men lack of manners than their lack of morals.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is growing up.

This is my last message to you; in sorrow seek happiness.

There is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.

I have often seen men prove unmannerly by too much manners and importunate by too much courtesy.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

My clothes keep my various selves buttoned up together, and enable all these otherwise irreconcilable aggregates of psychological phenomena to pass themselves off as one person.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

When angry, count four; when very angry swear.

Never mistake endurance for hospitality.

(A cocktail party is) an affair where you meet old friends you never met before.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share

It destroys one nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

(To be in society is) a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.

Rudeness is the weak man imitation of strength.

Confidence does more to make conversation than wit.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are wonderful.

Every man has his price.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

A host is like a general: It takes a mishap to reveal his genius.

(Sociability is) the art of unlearning to be preoccupied with yourself.

Everyone thinks himself well bred

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Manners are more important than the laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend

The first quality of a good education is good manners-and some people flunk the course.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Punctuality is the politeness of Kings.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.