There Is Nothing Like A Good Friend

It Is, Indeed, A Trial To Maintain The Virtue Of Humility When One Can't Help Being Right.

Meanwhile, The Empty Forms Of Social Behavior Survive Inappropriately In Business Situations. We All Know That When A Business Sends Its Customers 'friendly Reminders,' It Really Means Business.

For Email, The Old Postcard Rule Applies. Nobody Else Is Supposed To Read Your Postcards, But You'd Be A Fool If You Wrote Anything Private On One.

The Idea That People Can Behave Naturally, Without Resorting To An Artificial Code Tacitly Agreed Upon By Their Society, Is As Silly As The Idea That They Can Communicate By A Spoken Language Without Commonly Accepted Semantic And Grammatical Rules.

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.