Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others

Alice Duer Miller
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  3. We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

  4. Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter.

  5. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said, I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red; But if two women disagree, with very little noise, It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.

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