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.
"Judith Martin", better known by the pen name "Miss Manners", is an United States/American journalism/journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was Economics/economist and Trade union/labor historian Selig Perlman.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Judith Martin on Wikipedia.There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.
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.
Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
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