Respect isn’t automatically earned. You have to first position yourself with a level of mannerism that’s worth emulating, before others could see a strong reason to respect you.

You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you.

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair’s breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is...