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• A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. -- Chesterfield
• Compliments of congratulations are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper.
  I consider them as droughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer....
• All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly thing
  but yet a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defense, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance....
• A gentleman can disagree without being disagreeable.
• You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the worls.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosophe...
• I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic
• O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanne
  genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. -- Chesterfield...