...but he conceived that the perfection of human society required that a man should enter a drawing-room where he was a total stranger, and place him… - Henry Brooks Adams

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...but he conceived that the perfection of human society required that a man should enter a drawing-room where he was a total stranger, and place himself on the hearth-rug, his back to the fire, with an air of expectant benevolence, without curiosity, much as though he had dropped in at a charity concert, kindly disposed to applaud the performers and to overlook mistakes