Appeals to the Young and the Young at Heart.
I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
You lose your manners when you are poor.
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Media, like an un-mannered master, manipulates the meek minds.
The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.
Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares...
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