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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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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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Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
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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.
Biography
Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974) was a U.S. authority on etiquette. She committed suicide.
