Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.
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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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If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
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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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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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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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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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What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
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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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