
Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 4
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The Man of Millions
It is also a frontery for a younger person to call an older by her or his first name. Only a very underbred, thick-skinned person would attempt it. You must not take your conversation out of the drawing-room. A professor who has devoted his life to a subject modestly makes a statement. "'You are all wrong,' says the man of millions. As a connoisseur, he seems to think that because he can pay for anything he fancies, he is a credited expert as well as potential owner." Topics he does not care for are Bosch. Those which he has a smattering of, he simply appropriates. His prejudices are, in
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