petrnotail

restore politeness, refinement, tact and other old-fashioned niceties (read all 6 entries…)

quote  — 2 months ago

“The great art of etiquette was invented to translate the incoherent jumble of feelings to which we are all subject into something more presentable.”

-Miss Manners

May 05, 08:36PM PDT 3 cheers

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Epic Sunshine

Is art that needs translation

art at all?

Miss Manners (Judith to some of us close to manners), is sometimes full of herself!

May 06, 05:29AM PDT | Respond to this


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