Manners

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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If that's true, there's a lot of that going on right now because there are a lot of people with bad manners. I don't think you get manners if you are born into wealth or a specific social class. I see a lot of rich elite people every day with no manners.

I don't think you get manners from parents or school or church. I know people whose parents tried to teach them manners and who had church and school leaders try to help them learn common courtesy. That doesn't always work either.

I think you get manners from inside. When you realize that it's important to treat people well, then you will treat people well. You won't get it before then no matter who your role models are.

And if you don't get manners from inside, you might try reading a book with a giant bear shaking the hand of children holding monkeys or holding hands with rabbits. If nothing else, maybe people without manners will read that book, try to shake hands with a giant bear, and then we won't have to worry about how rude they were anymore.