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“The single essential ingredient of good manners is a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.” — Emily Post
(In today’s age of entitlement – the opposite of the age of enlightenment? – it seems that that sensitive awareness has been replaced by a callous indifference of the feelings of others. Although, I feel we do need to carefully weigh the feelings of others with the quest, and need, for the truth. My very first Emily Post quotation!) — YUR
PS. I just liked the sweetness of the Emily in this painting. — YUR
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PS. I “Published” this at 11:06 AM, on Monday 8/29/11, but as I checked the main page, this morning, it was *missing*! Fortunately, I found it in my Drafts folder. This is not the first time WordPress has hiccuped. WordPress must have some kind of bug, and I sure wish they would fix the damn thing. It’s crap like this that makes me look bad. — YUR
PPS. And yet again this did not post, despite my “Publishing” it AGAIN! It keeps ending up as a Draft. I’m trying one last time before sending the Limeys a nasty note! –— YUR
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Probably something to do with IRENE! As for Emily Post, I totally agree. Dr. Laura also has a good one I used to tell my middle schoolers when they had to do something they hated…”Smile and be polite!” A retired PE teacher from my school who was loved by the kids used to say, “Why can’t we all just get along!” It usually worked! 🙂