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Those who object--as so many young people do today--against formal social behaviour or conventional courtesy such as Confucius propagated and such as well-brought-up persons were taught to accept in our own modern West until recently, do not see how much it smooths everybody's way including their own and how much it oils the wheels of social existence for all of us.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 15