"Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved."

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Emily Post

#Etiquette Quotes #Presumption Quotes

“I always told my dad I'd play professional football.”
“All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.”
“True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse”
“I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”
“The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.”
“I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.”
“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation
“Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.”

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