Ted Koppel  - Quotes

 Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail  

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C.S. Lewis  - Quotes

 We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-

ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be

expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have

been far more impressed by the bad manners of par-

ents to children than by those of children to parents.

Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family

meals where the father or mother treated their

grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered

to any other young people, would simply have termi-

nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat-

ters which the children understand and their elders

don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions,

ridicule of things the young take seriously some-

times of their religion insulting references to their

friends, all provide an easy answer to the question

 

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Jane Austen  - Quotes

 The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating,  

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