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

— Judith Martin

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

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."

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

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