The expression “manners maketh the man” is an old one, going back hundreds of years, and it has been placed as a motto on many family crests. The heads of those families might have known wealth and nobility, but the thing they chose to identify with the most, the value that they chose to represent their family, was politeness.
When we trace back the history of the word “make”, it didn’t always mean “create”, but also had the meaning of “complete” - adding the finishing touches. Today you might have a nice house, a beautiful spouse, a grand automobile… But a person is not really complete, unless they have manners.
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