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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"Dining with the King; your attire, attitude and mentality must change."
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"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."
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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
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"There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy."
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"Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners."
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"He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved."
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"Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh."
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"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
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"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
Etiquette
"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."
Life
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."
Concern
"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
Experience
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
Privacy
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
Work
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
Man
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
Time
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
Life
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
People
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