“Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup.”
Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert
Miss Manners column "Egg On Their Face", June 19, 2005
“It's not going to change the world. But neither did the egg-cup.”
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As translated by W. J. Strachan
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