There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
Source: The Conduct of Life, Beauty, 1860.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.