Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
Music dissolves the straight and narrow.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.