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What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
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Women
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The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
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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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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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A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
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Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
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We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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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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It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.
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For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
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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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It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.
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The pejorative term political correctness was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
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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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