Being Listened To Should Be Sufficiently Gratifying

The Most Conventional Statements Are Both True And Welcome.

The Family Dinner Table Is The Cornerstone Of Civilization And Those Who 'graze' From Refrigerators Or In Front Of The Television Sets Are Doomed To Remain In A State Of Savagery.

Nowadays People Consider It A Disgrace To Admit That They Are Not Stressed.

Society Cannot Exist Without Etiquette ... It Never Has, And Until Our Own Century, Everybody Knew That.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.