Emily Post - Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Eti

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

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Post, Emily, quoted in Post, Peggy. Emily Post's Etiquette. 17th ed., HarperCollins, 2004, p. xiii.

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