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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Judith Martin

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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Women
Inseparably
Linked
Generosity
Gratitude

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I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
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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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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.
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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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The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
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people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
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A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
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Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.
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You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.
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One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.
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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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When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
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Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.
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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 most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
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A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
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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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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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