One-Upmanship
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ISBN: 1559211903 / Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, January 1997
A tongue-in-cheek guide to angles, gambits, ploys, devices, and other circumventions of social convention
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It is hard to maintain a witty equilibrium in the realm of manners in cultured society. If one ignores social conventions, one runs the risk of being perceived as uneducated; however, following all common protocol pegs one as a nerd. With tongue in cheek, Potter reveals how to confound those who like to practice their one-upmanship. What's a one-upmanship? An angle of vision, a way of life, a series of gambits, ploys and devices - all of these and more, upmanship is an individual talent. Remember one final overwhelming truth: If you're not one up, you're one down.
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