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"Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made."
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Personal Development
"Handshakes, Hugs & Other Touching. Learning how to touch appropriately can elevate your presentation, demonstrate respect, and convey confidence."
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Personal Development
"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
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Personal Development
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy."
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Personal Development
"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
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Personal Development
"It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!"
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Personal Development
"Don't talk while having food was only meant to be in integrity with food."
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Personal Development
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"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
Writing
"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."
Food
"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
Travel
"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
Principle
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
Travel
"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
Life
"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."
Peace
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
Travel
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
Travel
"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."
Development
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