Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Social etiquette is now effortless, yet life itself remains difficult.
- In plain terms
- It is easy to follow manners now but life is still very hard.
- What can you take from it?
- Acknowledge that social ease does not equal life ease.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does modern society make life harder?
- Are manners superficial?
Another view
It overlooks how social pressure can still make life hard.
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