Quote by Emily Post
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is th

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. – Emily Post

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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes — in other words, essential! – Emily Post

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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. – Emily Post

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Manners
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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. – Emily Post

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Other Quotes from
Science
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While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why. – Allen Klein

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True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. – Cleveland Abbe

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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Science

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. – James Hansen

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Science

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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. – Blaise Pascal

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After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster. – Nicholas Hoult

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I cant believe it. Im speechless. It is amazing to see where Ive come from the last two years. – Libby Trickett

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