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“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8114431e409dd80d114985c29b21e45f0ba50040218db80f4ad6da2cc255be57
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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