“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.”
Yukteswar Giri (1855–1936) Indian yogi and guru
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
“For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.”
— John Steinbeck, book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden
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