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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
Judith Martin
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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
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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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The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.
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[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.
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When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.
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The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.
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