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" There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. "
The Conduct of Life - Page 135
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 308 pages
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organisation and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behaviour ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behaviour ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volumes 36-38

1867 - 978 pages
...from the same source, and that source is an undue egotism and self-engrossment. For if manners " a. e but thought entering the hands and feet controlling the movements of the body and the speech and behavior," what is it but engrossment in one's own affairs that leads one to speak...
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Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with...
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Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art, Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 388 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, tile speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg....
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New Physiognomy, Or Signs of Character: As Manifested Through Temperament ...

Samuel Roberts Wells - 1871 - 788 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the hands and feet and controlling the movements of the body, the speech, and the behavior ?" SHAKING HANDS. There is...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 508 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...the movements of the body, the speech and behavior 1 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior1? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the...
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St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 5, Part 1

1878 - 486 pages
...herself, with now and then a bit for the chickens. Here, the very first thing, is something about eggs. "There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be but to boil an egg." I hope my little friends arc never cross when Bridget has not boiled the nice...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the...happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with...
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