Quotes by Emily Post

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• Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

  ― Emily Post
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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

  ― Emily Post
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• To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

  ― Emily Post
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• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

  ― Emily Post
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• shortcomings
• exhibition
• supplement
• recreation
• neighbors

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