In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

Example is better than precept.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.