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Amy Vanderbilt
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“Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.”
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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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“Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...”
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“One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.”
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“In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...”
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“Insisting on playing a game for which, after a fair amount of time, you show no natural aptitude is frustrating to you and annoying to all but the most complacent opponents.”
Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. etiquette authority
(1908 - 1974)
Full name: Amy Vanderbilt Knopf.