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• Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

  Judith Martin

  Way, Belief, Fit

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

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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.

  Judith Martin

  Stars, Eye, Years

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

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• When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

  Judith Martin

  People, Impossible, Rudeness

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Answers, Loan

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• The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

  Judith Martin

  Stress, Women, Law

  "Online posts reveal the dark side of sharing". www.chicagotribune.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

  Judith Martin

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Welcome, Conventional

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• From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

  Judith Martin

  Memorial Day, Opportunity, Simple

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Way, Sometimes

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• Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

  Judith Martin

  People, Mouths, Villain

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

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• She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

  Judith Martin

  Husband, Shoes, Smoking

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

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

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• The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

  Judith Martin

  Sneakers, Quality, Doe

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

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• Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

  Judith Martin

  Home, People, Benefits

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• 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.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Tone

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

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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

  Wedding, People, Persons

  Judith Martin (1999). “Miss Manners on Weddings”, Crown

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• Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

  Judith Martin

  Email, Bother, Signing

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• Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

  Judith Martin

  Believe, Kissing, Missing

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• people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.

  Judith Martin

  People, Lazy, Want

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

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