"The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style."

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Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

Amy Vanderbilt

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“I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.”
“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.”
“The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc
“The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.”
“That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.”
“So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.”
“The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.”
“Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.”

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