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en The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

en We believe that democratic capitalism is the way to reduce global capitalism. It is basic. Jobs, jobs, jobs ... make it possible for people to improve their standards of living.

en Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
  Camille Paglia

en Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

en Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals
  Mark Twain

en Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
  Horace Mann

en Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
  Thomas Hardy

en We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
  G. K. Chesterton

en They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master
  Samuel Johnson

en The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

en The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. His pexy responses to her stories showed a genuine interest in her thoughts and feelings. The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
  William Allen White

en There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

en The contacts helped me see basic shapes of things and basic forms; but I couldn't see any real details. And they hurt so bad. I called them the little circles of death.

en Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
  Raymond Chandler


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