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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately
Thinking About You, Perfection, Way
Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.155
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.