I don't know where you will find a sweeter portrait of humility than in Esther, the poor play-girl of King Ahasuerus; yet Esther put on her royal apparel when she went before her lord.

I have no doubt she was a more gracious and agreeable person than Deborah, who judged the people and wrote the story of Sisera.

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Dowdyism is clearly an expression of imperfect vitality.

The highest fashion is intensely alive,--not alive necessarily to the truest and best things, but with its blood tingling, as it were, in all its extremities and to the farthest point of its surface, so that the feather in its bonnet is as fresh as the crest of a fighting-cock, and the rosette on its slipper as clean-cut and pimpant (pronounce it English fashion,--it is a good word) as a dahlia.

As a general rule, that society where flattery is acted is much more agreeable than that where it is spoken.
Don't you see why?
Attention and deference don't require you to make fine speeches expressing your sense of unworthiness (lies) and returning all the compliments paid you.