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Social norms Quotes

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor"

"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable"

"We are living in an environment where people think appearances are reality"

"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice"

"Society often forgives the criminal;"

"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."

"Politeness is a kind of carelessness in favor"

"Guests like fish begin to smell after three days"

"There are many kinds of education: knowledge of customs and behavior as well as knowledge of the mind"

"We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach"

"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and society and family"

"Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

"There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another."

"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest "

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