"Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors."

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Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

Elsa Maxwell

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“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
“Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.”

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“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.”
“I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.”
“Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it...”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto No. 1”
“If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.”

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