I should swear she had been bred in a court; for besides her beauty, I never saw anything so genteel, so sensible, so polite. —Henry Fielding, Tom Jones What accords with nature and reason is a ready guide to decency; the taste of fools is not. —Desiderius Erasmus, De civilitate morum puerilium
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(2002). History, Archaeology, and the Ideal World of Manners. In: An Archaeology of Manners. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47170-1_2
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