The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society.

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"If you can’t be kind, at least be vague."

- Judith Martin

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"If you can't be kind, at least be vague."

- Judith Martin

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"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."

- Nick Cannon

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"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."

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"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

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"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."

- Lucille Ball

Relationships