Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. - Judith Martin
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
- Judith Martin
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that the… - Judith Martin
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that the…
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them. - Judith Martin
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith Martin
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. - Judith Martin
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. - Judith Martin
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette. - Judith Martin
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impo… - Judith Martin
Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impo…
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. - Judith Martin
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.
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