Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

  • -- Emily Post 波斯特

没有什么比使用哪个叉子更重要的了。礼仪是生活的科学。它包含了一切。这是道德。它是荣誉。

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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

人们想当然地认为每一种生物都是独特的植物或动物;这两者之间存在着真实而深刻的差异,只要能抓住它们就好了。

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

没有什么比读一本有关礼仪的书更能使人迅速地倾向于进修道院了。有那么多琐碎的方式可以让我们犯下一些社会罪行。

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

如果我们都做了我们能做的事情,我们会让自己大吃一惊。

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

礼仪意味着表现得比绝对必要的好一点。

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

所有的科学在很大程度上都是形式化的常识。

My life is better with every year of living it.

我的生活一年比一年好。