I say you should teach your kids that many people think it's rude to put your elbows on the table, but I also think you should tell your kids that it's a stupid rule that they should follow in public for the sake of social expediency but shouldn't take seriously in private.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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