Try Not To Annoy Your Relatives Unnecessarily.

The Underlying Principles Of Manners- Respect, Fairness, And Congeniality.

People Say When You're In Love, You Don't Need Etiquette. Well, You Need It Then More Than Anything. Or They Say, "at Home I Can Just Be Myself." What They Mean Is They Can Be Their Worst Selves... They Always Mean They Will Save All Their Anxiety About How To Behave For Somebody Like The Head Waiter Of A Restaurant, Someone They'll Never See Again.

The Simple Idea That Everyone Needs A Reasonable Amount Of Challenging Work In His Or Her Life, And Also A Personal Life, Complete With Noncompetitive Leisure, Has Never Really Taken Hold.

When A Society Abandons Its Ideals Just Because Most People Can't Live Up To Them, Behavior Gets Very Ugly Indeed.

Whamming Someone Smaller Than Oneself In Order To Teach That Person Civilized Behavior Is Not Within Miss Manners' Concept Of Propriety, Much Less Logic.