“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life
The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.”
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
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