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people's ill manners.--Chesterfield.

Good breeding shows itself most when to an ordinary eye it appears
the least.--Addison.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we
converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred
in the company.--Swift.

Hail! ye small, sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do you make
the road of it.--Sterne.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.--Lady Montague.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.--Bible.

No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage ground of
truth.--Lord Bacon.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble
thoughts.--Sidney.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with
salt.--New Testament.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.--Shakespeare.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.--Dekker.

The gods give nothing really beautiful without labor and
diligence.--Xenophon.

The key to pleasure is honest work. All dishes taste good with that
sauce.--H. R. Haweis.

Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of
body.--Lord Avebury.

Sir John Lubbock has said: "I cannot, however, but think that the
world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the
duty of Happiness, as well as the happiness of Duty, for we ought to
be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is the
most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."

Surely we cannot include among good habits the habit of making those
about us unhappy. Hence it is that they who are careless of the state
of mind into which they throw those about them are not good mannered.
While it is but simple kindness to allow our friends to sympathize in
the great griefs that may overtake us, it is not kindness for us to be
forever stirring them with all the real or fancied ills with which we
can regale them. Either extreme is more or less absurd and
unwarranted. Perhaps, as a rule, we thrust our troubles quite too
willingly upon others. On the other hand, some of the peoples of the
Orient we deem to be so ludicrously polite in matters of this nature
as to almost arouse our mirth.

An English writer in speaking of the Japanese says: "There must really
have been a double portion of politeness bestowed upon these people
who in the deepest domestic grief would smile and smile, so that a
guest in the home might