Montesquieu

“ But I have noticed among them some who are not only sociable, but are themselves society itself. They multiply themselves at every corner; they people in an instant the four quarters of a city; a hundred such men make more appearance than two thousand citizens ”

“ It can never be driven out of their heads that it is a part of good breeding to visit the public every day individually, without counting the wholesale visits which they make to places of general resort, which being much too brief a method is reckoned as nothing in the rules of their etiquette. ”

“ It is debated in the schools whether a body can be in more than one place at once; they are a proof of that which philosophers call in question.
They are always in a hurry, because they are engaged in the important business of asking every one they meet whither they are going, and whence they come. ”