No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.