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If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

— Judith Martin

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Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup.

Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.

If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.”

Machines do not have feelings... This is not to say that no inanimate objects have feelings -- toys are loaded with feelings, for instance, and only a monster would break the heart of a rag doll.

In a fit of exasperation, Miss Manners once demanded of a six-year-old person how it could be so childish and was forced to admit the justice of its reply, “I'm a child."

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