We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
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The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.Judith Martin
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
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You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
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