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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

This is a question of social control,

It's like children getting new toys. But the excitement is over. People should be over it.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Children should acknowledge other people, saying 'hello,' 'good morning,' 'goodbye'. They should understand that there are times to sit down and be quiet. That's a prerequisite for school. They also need a respect for authority, the lack of which is a tremendous handicap in school.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

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