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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin
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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
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Good
Discover
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Modesty
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It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.
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Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.
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. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.
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We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
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The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
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Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
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many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.
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Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
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If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
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I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.
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We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
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