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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

Emily Post

Gentleman, Supper, Asks

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

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The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Emily Post

Imagine, Elegance, Slang

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

Emily Post

Writing, Men, Long

Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Emily Post

Social Values, Courtesy, Manners

Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

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To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

Emily Post

Lying, Punishment, Black

Emily Post (1959). “Children are people: how to understand and guide your children”

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Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

Emily Post

Mother, Hurt, Children

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Emily Post

Truth, Honesty, Coffee

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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

Emily Post

Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

"Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

Emily Post

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Emily Post

Golf, Average, Games

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

Emily Post

Sports, Games, Irritation

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

Emily Post

Wise, Party, Gay

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

Emily Post

Talking, Persons, Has Beens

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

Emily Post

Blue, Fake, Feelings

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Emily Post

Disappointment, Demand, Guests

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

Emily Post

Character, Talking, Personality

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.502, Cosimo, Inc.

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The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

Emily Post

Humor, Light, Joy

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Emily Post

Justice, Littles, Purses

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

Emily Post

Children, Hands, Broken

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

Emily Post

Shoes, Essentials, Bread

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Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

Emily Post

Elbows, Tables, Eating

EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.

Emily Post

Religious, Gentleman, Opera

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

Emily Post

Past, Land, Names

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Emily Post

Food, Cooking, Use

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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Emily Post

Women, Believe, Worry

EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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