Good manners
“My boy" a father advised his son, "Treat everybody with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show courtesy to them not because they are gentlemen but because you are one.”
The above was published in the Alabama Times and is one of my favourite sayings.
Whenever I see a person losing temper and showing inordinate anger, he/she instantly becomes smaller in my eyes.
"Manners" said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "are the happy ways of doing things". And he added that people are always watching your manners and awarding or denying you prizes accordingly.
I think parents must teach their children from early childhood how to deal with people courteously, because it has been learnt that in the first five years of life, 85% of the brain is developed. It will be easy for the young minds to learn how to go through life with a warm and friendly attitude. It will be very rewarding indeed.
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