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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

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I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

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The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

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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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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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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 13th, 1938

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