<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472120" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,<br>Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.<br>I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step on your feet,<br>Because I think that is sort of sweet;<br>No, I object to one kind of apology alone,<br>Which is when people spend their time and yours apologizing for everything they own.<br>You go to their house for a meal,<br>And they apologize because the anchovies aren't caviar or the partridge is veal;<br>They apologize privately for the crudeness of the other guests,<br>And they apologize publicly for their wife's housekeeping or their husband's jests;<br>If they give you a book by Dickens they apologize because it isn't by Scott,<br>And if they take you to the theater, they apologize for the acting and the dialogue and the plot;<br>They contain more milk of human kindness than the most capacious diary can,<br>But if you are from out of town they apologize for everything local and if you are a foreigner they apologize for everything American.<br>I dread these apologizers even as I am depicting them,<br>I shudder as I think of the hours that must be spend in contradicting them,<br>Because you are very rude if you let them emerge from an argument victorious,<br>And when they say something of theirs is awful, it is your duty to convince them politely that it is magnificent and glorious,<br>And what particularly bores me with them,<br>Is that half the time you have to politely contradict them when you rudely agree with them,<br>So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,<br>Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ogden+Nash">Ogden Nash</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472120" data-title="Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice de Ogden Nash" data-description="There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges, Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies. I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step ..."></div> </div> </div>

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