"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
"People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line."
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Source: The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.
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