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Yes Sir. No Sir.

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Yes Sir. No Sir.

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember two important things that my father taught me about manners. One, always say “yes sir” to an older man and always give a firm handshake. Among other teachings my parents hammered those two into me regularly and now it is second nature. That is what Emerson means when he says “each one a ...

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