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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
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What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
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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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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
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When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
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The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.
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The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything.
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Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
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It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
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People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them it gives you a set of rules.
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Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
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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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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
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The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
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A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.
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The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
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Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.
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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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