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(4) 'Deontology,' pp. 130-1, 144.
(5) 'Letters and Essays,' p. 67.
(6) 'Beauties of St. Francis de Sales.'
(7) Ibid.
(8) 'Life of Perthes,' ii. 449.
(9) Moore's 'Life of Byron,' 8vo. Ed., p. 483.
CHAPTER IX.--MANNER--ART.
"We must be gentle, now we are gentlemen."--SHAKSPEARE.
"Manners are not idle, but the fruit
Of noble nature and of loyal mind."--TENNYSON.
"A beautiful behaviour is better than a beautiful form; it gives a
higher pleasure than statues and pictures; it is the finest of the
fine arts."--EMERSON.
"Manners are often too much neglected; they are most important to
men, no less than to women.... Life is too short to get over a
bad manner; besides, manners are the shadows of virtues."--THE
REV. SIDNEY SMITH.
Manner is one of the principal external graces of character. It
is the ornament of action, and often makes the commonest offices
beautiful by the way in which it performs them. It is a happy way
of doing things, adorning even the smallest details of life, and
contributing to render it, as a whole, agreeable and pleasant.
Manner is not so frivolous or unimportant as some may think it to
be; for it tends greatly to facilitate the business of life, as
well as to sweeten and soften social intercourse. "Virtue
itself," says Bishop Middleton, "offends, when coupled with a
forbidding manner.
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