Status Updates From How to Fake It in Society

It doesn't matter how little space one takes up, because it's always too much, and so you give more and more ground till you've barely enough left to stand on.

Titus Pilcrow was a quiet, serious sort of man, a little shy, a little awkward, the sort who thought too much about things that ought not bother him…Nico groped for a word, and settled on "self-contained." A man who lived in himself, not always hungry, or demanding, or grabbing at others for more. Nico, who was frequently the object of people's hunger and grabbing, found that remarkably peaceful.

This book certainly can be used to improve one’s vocabulary. It is untrammeled by modern vernacularly standards.