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8. Comment on the following quotes about manners and traditions. Use the active vocabulary:

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Anonymous

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Amy Vanderbilt

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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