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" There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; each once a stroke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. "
Education - Page 103
1921
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The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 270 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing...life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superfieial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing...which the routine of life is washed, and its details adomed. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows....
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Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior1? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing...a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is wrashed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth...
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Old Words and Modern Meanings: Being a Collection of Examples from Ancient ...

Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...There is always a best way of doing everything. Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened...varnish with which the routine of life is washed, and ita details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning...
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Occasional Papers for M.E.D.S. in MDCCCLXXIX.

Homer Hine Stuart - 1880 - 122 pages
...Woolson's novel "Anne", where they appeared as Chapter headings: "Manners — not what but how. Manners are happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of...of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. Manners require time; nothing is more vulgar than haste." "In our society there is a standing antagonism...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with...
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

1880 - 516 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; each once a strcke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volumes 1-4

1881 - 980 pages
...gardens. ANNE. CHAPTER IX. "Manners — not what, but June. Manners are happy ways of doing tilings; each once a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. Manners require time ; nothing is more vulgar than haste." — EMKRSON. MADAME MOREAU was a Frenchwoman,...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and behaviour f There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be Tis a haggard, malignant, careworn running for luck. Egotism is a kind of depth to the morning meadows. Mannersareverycommunicable ; men catch them from each other. Consuelo,...
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