Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!
A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.