"Tis a rule of manners to avoid..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
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“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
“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.”
“The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.”