What a man has to do in society is to assert himself.

Is there a good place at table?
Take it.

At the Treasury or the Home Office?
Ask for it.

Do you want to go to a party to which you are not invited?
Ask to be asked.
Ask A., ask B., ask Mrs.C., ask everybody you know: you will be thought a bore; but you will have your way.

What matters if you are considered obtrusive, provided that you obtrude?
By pushing steadily, nine hundred and ninety-nine people in a thousand will yield to you.