How To Use Good manners In A Sentence
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Mother attaches a great deal of value to good manners.
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The lesson is clear: good manners, fair treatment and a lack of guile are good for business.
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Good manners ban abusive language anywhere.
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I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.
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It was typical of his good manners to make light of his impending death.
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Beneath his tissue-thin veneer of good manners,he was a very vulgar man.
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Perhaps someone could offer a reasonable explanation - not just a lame excuse - for this apparent cold, ungracious, disrespectful conduct and lapse in basic good manners?
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Everyone co-operated in making sure that good manners were maintained, even if it meant snitching on people who used bad language.
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Even if I thought that I had some moral or good manners responsibility to use the label preferred by a strong majority of the group, I see no basis for accepting such a responsibility to use the label preferred by a vocal minority, or even half of thegroup.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use:
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And yet these good manners keep people at a distance.
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He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed.
Henrik Ibsen
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Any time your children show good manners - which is at the heart of being considerate and kind - lavish praise on them.
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He is the fountain-head of good manners and correct social behaviour as well as the ultimate spiritual and ethical guide.
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I am going to make extra effort to use good manners and proper social behavior.
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It always bemuses me when people get upset about supercilious piffle like good manners but dont get upset about important things like radical islam, Neathergate, EUSSR, the mps expenses scandal.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Good manners demanded the disclaimer of hunger from the wayfarer, but the geography of the Colorado Plateau made it an obvious lie.
A THIEF OF TIME
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I think good manners are dwindling from road users generally: motorist, pedestrian and cyclist.
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The city is small and comforting, and its people live in genteel pockets of suburbia and have 1950s good manners.
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He really does have good manners, thought Richard as he strode alongside the Commandant down the pathway which led from the sawpit to Government House and the storage sheds, one of which, he noted, held the coble and an even smaller boat made from the pieces of the old coble which had foundered on the reef and drowned four men.
Morgan’s Run
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Clarissa was extremely voluble on the subject of good manners.
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Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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It's just good behaviour and good manners.
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Good manners ban abusive language anyplace.
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He put a high value on caring for people and practising good manners.
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It's not something to greet with languid good manners.
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It's not good manners to stare at people.
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Its inveterate good manners are ultimately its undoing.
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He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
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I understood later on my parents might have been concerned with the chairs, and our good manners, but in fact, they were much more concerned with our "colonne vertébrale" spine.
Regle - French Word-A-Day
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It's not something to greet with languid good manners.
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Discipline in all walks of life, punctuality, politeness and good manners are expected from the police constables and officers.
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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. Jonathan Swift
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A model of good manners, he has conquered any inward fury.
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The dapper sophisticate, Fred Astaire, once noted: ‘The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.’
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If you are the biggest numbskull in the world you will get by on good manners.
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I think good manners are dwindling from road users generally: motorist, pedestrian and cyclist.
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So they argue about protocol and diplomatic good manners instead.
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For all his urbanity and good manners, it wasn't a particularly impressive performance.
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Both appeared to have good manners and fine breeding.
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Good manners include taking time to greet people properly, using conventional oral formulas.
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One is sure to become his ardent admirer for his humility, his performance and his good manners.
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A boy who has good manners stands up in an automatic movement when a lady enters the room.
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I think good manners are dwindling from road users generally: motorist, pedestrian and cyclist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rostov took a breath, and decided to wait until good manners forced his aide to behave in an approachable fashion.
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Eventually I realized that if I want people to have good manners in my house, then, by gum, I'm going to make them have good manners in my house.
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It's considered good manners in some societies to leave a little food on your plate.
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It is the place of honour and has a peculiar sanctity among the Arabs, it being a breach of good manners to tread upon it (or indeed upon any part of the carpet) with shodden feet.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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To the end, that as in gentlenesse of minde we conferre with other; so by excellency in good manners, we may shew our selves not inferiour to them.
The Decameron
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Her expression denoted a little impromptu wrestling match-reluctance, annoyance, and good manners doing takedowns.
I is for Innocent
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Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in good manners.
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Even if he bores you stiff, it is good manners not to let him know it.
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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. Jonathan Swift
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They want to burst past the obstacle in their path but good manners and guilt prevents them from doing so.
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They did, at least, have the good manners to refrain from comment until after the door had closed behind him.
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
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Good manners ban abusive language anywhere.
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One of the things I have found a bit depressing about being a constable is the realisation that money and an expensive education is no guarantee of good manners and common sense.
Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The bumptious, impudent, selfish, "hateful" boy may become a man of force, of learning, of decided capacity, even of polish and good manners, and score success, so that those who know him say how remarkable it is that such a "knurly" lad should have turned out so well.
That Fortune
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It was typical of his good manners to make light of his impending death.
Times, Sunday Times
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So we're not trying to reconstruct anything from that era other than style, good manners and hard work.
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It isn't good manners to stare at people.
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I think good manners are dwindling from road users generally: motorist, pedestrian and cyclist.
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But actually good manners are timeless, priceless and classless.
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Nanny is attractive, bright, 25 with a delectable smile and good manners.
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The lie is the basic building block of good manners.
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I would never want you to suck up to him, but good manners never hurt.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit; and we knew he knew the laughableness of it; yet we adored him for it.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Good manners ban abusive language anyplace.
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Where good manners are spontaneous and jolly;?
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Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors! Mehmet Murat ildan
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This sort of exaggerated emphasis on good manners can be used to promote servility.
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Rostov took a breath, and decided to wait until good manners forced his aide to behave in an approachable fashion.
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She could at least have the good manners to let me know she won't be able to attend.
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So we're not trying to reconstruct anything from that era other than style, good manners and hard work.
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She could at least have the good manners to let me know she won't be able to attend.
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Politeness, good manners, and willingness to serve are values very strongly encouraged in children.
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A good example serves to promote good manners in the young.
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They attracted his eyes as might the intervolved play of two large white moths in the penumbra beyond the candle-light, between his father's back and the dark sideboard; but he fought against the attraction because he knew that to be aware of a servant was an offence against good manners at table.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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She looked confused by my good manners, then her face cleared as if the sun had just dawned.
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Young men were once required to be educated in good manners.
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Etiquette and good manners are not a middle-class pastime or an optional extra for nice people.
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I actually think the decline in manners is more worrisome, because a lot of moral behavior is grounded in good manners.
The usually even-tempered ...
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A boy who has good manners stands up in an automatic movement when a lady enters the room.
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On the other hand, it is hardly good manners to stumbled pie-eyed into somebody else's house.
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It's an oddly reasonable attitude for a stirrer, even one whose inappropriate questions are almost concealed by his soothing good manners.
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Every country has its own customs of social etiquette and good manners, and Thailand is no exception.
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But it is a matter of common civility and good manners for young limbs to give way to older ones.
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Well, of course, dearie, it's only good manners to be ashamed of it; it's expected from a woman.
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Since then thousands of youngsters have learned good manners, decent behaviour and mutual respect, all through the seemingly anachronistic art of ballroom dancing.
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Good manners also dictate that you handle your mail promptly and courteously.
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Is it necessary good manners to thank for a dinner or a weekend by writing?
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There was, and still is, a very human quality to it - good manners, civic pride and little acts of kindness.
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Contrary to popular belief, simple communication skills and good manners are more important than great oratory.
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He may be very "" aimable, "" have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.
Emma
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I promise to practice good manners and good behaviour and not to lead a life of idleness.
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Out of good manners, I would hesitate to label him an ignorant ganch.
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Good manners, communication skills and sociability are qualities that have to be cultivated from childhood.
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And they hold, for the most part, the good conditions and customs and good manners, as men of the country abovesaid; but they go all naked.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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And as befits an ironist like Austen, this book is less a “guide to good manners” than a literary companion disguised as Regency self-help manual.
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The proprietor of the store placed a " Good manners welcomed here " sign on the door.
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Courses in good manners improve pupils' confidence and prepare them for the workforce, an instructor says.
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‘Good manners,’ he observes, ‘are like sacramentals - outer signs of inner grace.’
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He is certainly composed but beneath the mask of elegant good manners the man is a bundle of nerves.
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A good example serves to promote good manners in the young.
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They did, at least, have the good manners to refrain from comment until after the door had closed behind him.
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
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I understood later on my parents might have been concerned with the chairs, and our good manners, but in fact, they were much more concerned with our "colonne vertébrale" (spine).
Regle - French Word-A-Day
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Picture the kind of sandwich that is so large you have to cut it in half to maneuver it with any amount of grace and good manners.
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After all, knowing how to dance was a social necessity as important as having good manners and being a gracious hostess.
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For instance, if you want your child to have good manners, make sure she sees you being polite to others.
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Their speech is often en - dowed with good manners, but there is also quiet mock - ery in their utterance and this is as finely sifted into their courtesies as powder into sand.
The Gospel according to the Son
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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I told him the reflection both of the poet and applier was much too general, and made with more ill-nature than good manners.
Clarissa Harlowe
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That she managed a solitary clap at the end was a triumph of good manners over sincerity.
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In spite of the recent lecture on good manners, the weaver could not help giving a long "whew" of astonishment, and the others were so amused by his _naiveté_ that the merriment flitted all over their faces, though for courtes y's sake thay forbore actual laughter; while
News from Nowhere
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Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but surely good manners and thoughtfulness should play a part here?
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People spoke of Clinton's devastating charisma, of his charm and relaxed good manners.
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Is it necessary good manners to thank for a dinner or a weekend by writing?
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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. Jonathan Swift
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That she managed a solitary clap at the end was a triumph of good manners over sincerity.
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So we're not trying to reconstruct anything from that era other than style, good manners and hard work.
Times, Sunday Times
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New York politics is replete with ironies, but perhaps the choicest in the past decade was the crusade to teach the city good manners waged by a mayor who was virtually incapable of practicing them himself.
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Morris celebrated the former president's inherent sense of good manners while emphasizing his well-documented mental deterioration.
New York Times Barely Touches Reagan's 100th; Unflattering When It Does
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Here, on the contrary, your volunteers "do their spiriting gently:" all is good-nature and good manners; and a front is diminished, or a column of companies in line of march is eased off to the right or left to make way for carts or coaches, as the case requires, with a promptness which is the more creditable from the fact that the execution of a change in movement is no light matter.
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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What happened to our famed good manners and that precious sense of fair play?
Times, Sunday Times
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Discipline in all walks of life, punctuality, politeness and good manners are expected from the police constables and officers.
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He opted to deliver a stern lecture on good manners.
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It's just good behaviour and good manners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evil communications corrupt good manners.
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He put a high value on caring for people and practising good manners.
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I like formality, customs and good manners.
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My mama told me it's good manners to say Oom and Tannie
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aimable," have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people -- nothing really amiable about him. '
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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good manners
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In spite of the recent lecture on good manners, the weaver could not help giving a long "whew" of astonishment, and the others were so amused by his naiveté that the merriment flitted all over their faces, though for courtesy's sake they forbore actual laughter; while I looked from one to the other in a puzzled manner, and at last said:
News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription]
