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

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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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If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

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We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

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

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For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

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

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The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

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My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 13th, 1938

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