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The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.
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
Emily Price Post
Emily Bruce Price
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One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it!
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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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