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The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
Judith Martin
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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
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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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What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy it is kindergarten.
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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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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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Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
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A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, Do we have to ask them? to people whose first response is, How much do you think we have to spend on them?
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Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
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The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
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It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
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Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.
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Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.
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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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