Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
Sometimes people do get hurt
The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.