Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

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Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

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Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

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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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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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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

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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. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

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