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The Rationale That Etiquette Should Be Eschewed Because It Fosters Inequality Does Not Ring True In A Society That Openly Admits To A Feverish Interest In The Comparative Status-conveying Qualities Of Sneakers. Manners Are Available To All, For Free.

It Is, Indeed, A Trial To Maintain The Virtue Of Humility When One Can't Help Being Right.

To Sacrifice The Principles Of Manners, Which Require Compassion And Respect, And Bat People Over The Head With Their Ignorance Of Etiquette Rules They Cannot Be Expected To Know Is Both Bad Manners And Poor Etiquette. That Social Climbers And Twits Have Misused Etiquette Throughout History Should Not Be Used As An Argument For Doing Away With It.

She Only Maintains That It Is Possible, Under Some Circumstances, For A Lady To Murder Her Husband; But That A Woman Who Wears Ankle-strap Shoes And Smokes On The Street Corner, Though She May Be A Joy To All Who Know Her And Have Devoted Her Life To Charity, Could Never Qualify As A Lady.

Honesty Has Come To Mean The Privilege Of Insulting You To Your Face Without Expecting Redress.