While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requireme… - Thorstein Veblen

To make effective use of the modern system of communication in any way or all of its ramifications (streets, railways, steamship lines, telephone, telegraph, postal service, etc.), men are required to adapt their needs and their motions to the exigencies of the process whereby this civilized method of intercourse is carried into effect. The service is standardized, and therefore the use of it is standardized also... one's plans and projects must be conceived and worked out in terms of those standard units which the system imposes.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.