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

— Judith Martin

#hypocrisy #sin #social #virtue

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ↗

— Judith Martin

#far #good #good qualities #help #impressive

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#first #got #just #much #now

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ↗

— Judith Martin

#enforce #force #immorality #morality

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

— Judith Martin

#behavior #gets #ideals #indeed #just

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

— Judith Martin

#attached #directions #libraries #need #rest

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#difference #dress #himself #his #knows

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. ↗

— Steve Martin

#cringe #explains #gets #i #into

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards. ↗

— Judith Martin

#find #guards #home #most #people

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. ↗

— Judith Martin

#anonymous #despicable #does #etiquette #hiring