“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”

—  Louis Kronenberger

Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life http://books.google.com/books?id=PiE0AAAAMAAJ&q="Conformity+may+not+always+reign+in+the+prosperous+bourgeois+suburb+but+it+ultimately+always+governs" (1954), p. 122.
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)

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