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• Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Advice, Should

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• Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

  Judith Martin

  Hypocrisy, Sin, Virtue

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

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  Ignorance, Skills, Ideas

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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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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  Desire, Democracy, Nicknames

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• You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, Excuse, Desertion

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• Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

  Judith Martin

  Law, Community, Social Behavior

  "Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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• What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

  Judith Martin

  Women, Nutty, Relative

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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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  Apology, Apologizing, Etiquette

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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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  Women, Technology, Feelings

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• People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

  Judith Martin

  Love You, Home, Mean

  "Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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• People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

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  People, Manners, Plastic

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Trying, Annoying

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• Everybody's an art critic.

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  Art, Artist, Critics

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

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  Good Enough, Enough, Persons

  Judith Martin (1983). “Gilbert: a comedy of manners”, Viking Pr

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• it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

  Judith Martin

  People, Would Be, Racist

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• Greece is a good place for rebirths.

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  Rebirth, Good Place, Greece

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

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  Jobs, Party, Thinking

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

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  Government, Definitions, Etiquette

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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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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  Advice, Easy, Said

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• Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

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  Women, Real, Attention

  "Miss Manners: Don't post anything that might offend a future boss" by Judith Martin, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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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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  People, Wish, Lines

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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

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  Real, Giving, Attention

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• A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

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  Thinking, People, Love And Marriage

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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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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  People, Safe, Next

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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