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I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

Nicole Krauss
Mother, Use, Madness
Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.257, W. W. Norton & Company
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.