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One Quotes by Emily Post
- The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
- Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
- Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
- Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.
- A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
- 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,…
- Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
- To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black lies. On the…
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