Erse >
Other >
Life and Literature Read Online
Part 92 (1/2)
1274
I am almost frozen by the distance you are from me
1275
Manners carry the world for the moment; character, for all time
--_Alcott_
1276
Behavior is a e
--_Goethe_
1277
MANNERS
The distinguishi+ng trait of people accustoood society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, froreatest to the least They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money in quiet; while others cannot take up either a spoon, or an affront, withoutnoise about it
--_Bulwer-Lytton_
1278
Manners are the shadows of virtue
--_Sydney Sar people can't be still
--_O W Holmes_
1280
In society want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners
--_Lavater_
1281