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One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion. - Adolph Freiherr Knigge
" "One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.
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About Adolph Freiherr Knigge
Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 1752 – 6 May 1796) was a German writer and Freemason, most famous for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen [On Human Relations]. Although the work is more of a philosophical treatise on the basis of human relations than a how-to guide to etiquette, the German term “Knigge” has come to mean “good manners”.
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Philo
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J. C. Meywerk
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Joseph Aloisius Maier
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Benjamin Noldmann
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Joachim M. Spießglas
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Joseph von Wurmbrand
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Victor Ehrenfels
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Joachim Melchior Spießglas
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Samuel Conrad von Schaafskopf
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Adolph von Knigge
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