Times have changed

[Al Capizzo]

"I am the most courteous man in the world. I pride myself on never having once been rude, in this land full of the most unutterable scoundrels, who will come and sit down next to you and tell you their woes and even declaim their poetry to you." - Heinrich Heine

And today we have Sally, and Jerry Springer, etc.

The quote is from the beginning of a book I've just begun called "The Fencing Master".