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Updated: May 16, 2025

Polite Society But in our polite society we have as yet found no better method than beginning with a sort of medical diagnosis "How do you do?" This admits of no answer. Convention forbids us to reply in detail that we are feeling if anything slightly lower than last week, but that though our temperature has risen from ninety-one-fifty to ninety-one-seventy-five, our respiration is still normal.

Stephen Leacock - The Hohenzollerns in America