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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
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One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.
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The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
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Insisting on playing a game for which, after a fair amount of time, you show no natural aptitude is frustrating to you and annoying to all but the most complacent opponents.
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In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.
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Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
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Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
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Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.
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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
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Amy Vanderbilt
Born:
July 22, 1908
Died:
December 27, 1974
(aged 66)
Bio:
Amy Vanderbilt was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation.
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