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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are read more
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise read more
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite read more
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you read more
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.