I love to be in the company of others, but it's a shame when I come across someone with no manners at all. I'm offended by more and more people like this, they're rude, they're crude, and they always have an attitude. These kind of people need a reality check and I wish they would have gotten the chance to meet the Beecher sisters. As the Beecher sister's described in the book, The American Woman's Home, "Good manners lead us to avoid all practices that offend the taste of others, all unnecessary violations of the conventional rules of propriety, all rude and disrespectful language and deportment, and all remarks that would tend to wound other people's feelings." We should all follow the basic principals of good manners, because life is much more pleasurable when you`re around others with good manners.

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