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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
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Emily Post
Age: 87 †
Born: 1872
Born: October 27
Died: 1960
Died: September 25
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Emily Price
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Emily Bruce Price
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The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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The eleventh commandment, Thou shalt not be found out is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
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The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.
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The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.
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Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
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Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to play fair in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.
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Keep your hands to yourself! might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.
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