Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh. British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.