Manners are different in every country;
but true politeness is everywhere the same. Manners are only{{U}} 62
{{/U}}helps which ignorance assumes in order to{{U}} 63
{{/U}}politeness, which is the result of good sense and good{{U}} 64
{{/U}}A person possessed of those qualities, though he had never seen a court, is
truly{{U}} 65 {{/U}}; and if without them, would continue a clown,{{U}}
66 {{/U}}he had been all his life a gentleman usher. He who{{U}}
67 {{/U}}airs of importance exhibits his {{I}}credentials{{/I}}
(证明)of{{U}} 68 {{/U}}. There is no policy like politeness; and a good
manner is the best thing in the world to get a good name, or to{{U}} 69
{{/U}}the want of it. Good manners are a part of good morals, and it is{{U}}
70 {{/U}}much our duty as our interest to practice in both. Good
manners are the art of making those around us easy.{{U}} 71 {{/U}}makes
the fewest persons{{U}} 72 {{/U}}is the best bred man in the company.
Good manners should begin at home. A person{{U}} 73 {{/U}}appears so
ridiculous by the qualities he has, as by those he{{U}} 74 {{/U}}to
have. He gains more by being{{U}} 75 {{/U}}to be seen as he is, than
by attempting to appear{{U}} 76 {{/U}}he is not. Good manners is the
result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial, for
the{{U}} 77 {{/U}}of others, and with a view to obtain the same
indulgence from them. "{{U}} 78 {{/U}}make the man," says the proverb.
It may be true that some men's man hers have been the making of them;{{U}}
79 {{/U}}as manners are rather the expression of the man, it would be
more{{U}} 80 {{/U}}to say the man makes the manners. Social courtesies
should arise from the heart; the worth of manners consists{{U}} 81
{{/U}}being the sincere expressions of feelings.