I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
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People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Part 1 “Introduction,” “Some Thoughts on the Impulse Rude” (1983)
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: How about Easter? I suppose you have etiquette rules that apply to Easter Day?
GENTLE READER: Certainly, and when the Day of Judgment comes, Miss Manners will have etiquette rules to apply to that, as well.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Part 9 “Advanced Civilization,” “Play” (1983)
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At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet and farmer
A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, “The Farmer’s Daily Diet” (1557)
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In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional virtue weak men endeavour to redeem themselves in their own estimation, vain men to exalt themselves in that of mankind.
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters
The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 3 (1836)
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We are revealed to others in times of crisis, and even more so to ourselves.
[Les occasions nous font connoître aux autres, et encore plus à nous-mêmes.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶345 (1665–1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
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First present in the 4th (1675) edition.
(Source (French)). Other translations:Opportunities make us known to ourselves and others.
[pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶323; ed. Lepoittevin-Lacroix (1797), ¶315]Opportunities make us known to ourselves as well as to others.
[ed. Carvill (1835), ¶285]Opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.
[ed. Gowens (1851), ¶355]Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
[tr. Bund/Friswell (1871), ¶345]Circumstances make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.
[tr. Heard (1917), ¶352]Crises reveal our characters to others, and still more to ourselves.
[tr. Stevens (1939), ¶345]Situations reveal the truth about us to others, and even more to ourselves.
[tr. Kronenberger (1959), ¶345]Circumstances reveal us to others and still more to ourselves.
[tr. Tancock (1959), ¶345]Opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.
[tr. Whichello (2016), ¶345]Circumstances enable us to know others, and even more to know ourselves.
[tr. Chandler, ¶345]
AUSTRIA: For courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 82 (2.1.82) (1596)
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