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Think Before You Speak This document provides an excerpt from a book on etiquette discussing the importance of thinking before speaking. It notes that many faults in conversation are caused by a lack of thought. A first rule of etiquette is to only say things that will be agreeable to others. However, many people prattle on without consideration for what they are saying or to whom. The excerpt advises considering your audience before oversharing details about your children or praising them excessively, as this can prejudice listeners against them. Thinking before speaking can prevent boring or annoying others.

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Think Before You Speak This document provides an excerpt from a book on etiquette discussing the importance of thinking before speaking. It notes that many faults in conversation are caused by a lack of thought. A first rule of etiquette is to only say things that will be agreeable to others. However, many people prattle on without consideration for what they are saying or to whom. The excerpt advises considering your audience before oversharing details about your children or praising them excessively, as this can prejudice listeners against them. Thinking before speaking can prevent boring or annoying others.

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                               Reading Comprehension Grade 8 

Think Before You Speak


From Etiquette by Emily Post

Nearly all the faults or mistakes in conversation are caused by not


thinking. For instance, a first rule for behavior in society is: "Try to do
and say those things only which will be agreeable to others." Yet how
many people, who really know better, people who are perfectly
capable of intelligent understanding if they didn't let their brains
remain asleep or locked tight, go night after night to dinner parties,
day after day to other social gatherings, and absent-mindedly prate
about this or that without ever taking the trouble to think what they
are saying and to whom they are saying it! Would a young mother
describe twenty or thirty cunning tricks and sayings of the baby to a
bachelor who has been helplessly put beside her at dinner if she
thought? She would know very well, alas! that not even a very dear
friend would really care for more than a hors d'oeuvre of the subject,
at the board of general conversation.
The older woman is even worse, unless something occurs (often
when it is too late) to make her wake up and realize that she not
only bores her hearers but prejudices everyone against her children
by the unrestraint of her own praise. The daughter who is continually
lauded as the most captivating and beautiful girl in the world, seems
to the wearied perceptions of enforced listeners annoying and plain.
In the same way the "magnificent" son is handicapped by his
mother's—or his father's—overweening pride and love in exact

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