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Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
Judith Martin
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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
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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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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
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Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.
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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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Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with 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.
Judith Martin
The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
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One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.
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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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Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
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I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
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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.
Judith Martin
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
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The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
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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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[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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You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin
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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