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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
Considers
Persons
Person
Enough
Good

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The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.
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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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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
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Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
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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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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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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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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
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The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
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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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Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.
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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do
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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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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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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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Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.
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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 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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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
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The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
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