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Letitia Baldrige


American
February 9, 1926
Writer
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I've become a master of the apology.


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We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.


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I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.


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I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.


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I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make.


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I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.


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The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.


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For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
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That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.
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The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.
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I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.
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We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.
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I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
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Jeans of any sort should not be worn in nice restaurants. They pollute the landscape. They should also not be worn in the workplace if no other workers wear them. However, if your office is casual, go for it.
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Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
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Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.
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