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Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, by Judith Martin

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A little more than a hundred years ago, Clara Sophia Bloomfield-Moore, alias “Mrs. H.O. Ward,” wrote in Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society: “It is the duty of American women to do all in their power toward the formation of so high a standard of morals



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