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Author's Note: How Emily Post Works
What impressed me most about Emily Post was her emphasis on combining good character and knowing the rules of etiquette. Good intentions are essential, yes, but they aren't everything. Good intentions can't tell you how to act in every situation. Furthermore, someone from a completely different background could take offense at what was meant to be a kind act. Establishing a cultural etiquette — even if it's a flexible and changing etiquette — is necessary for society.
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- Claridge, Laura. "Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners." Random House. New York, 2008.
- Encyclopedia Britannica. "Emily Post." (March 27, 2015) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/472019/Emily-Post
- Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Place Settings." The New Yorker. Oct. 20, 2008. (March 27, 2015) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/place-settings
- Post, Emily. "Etiquette: in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home." Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1922. Project Gutenberg. (March 27, 2015) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14314/14314-h/14314-h.htm