He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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The role of morals
Death and threat
Evaporate your morals.
Sex and lust
Drive away your morals.
Greed and hunger
Put to death your morals.
Teaching morals
Is an entertainment.
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
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Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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