It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. --Shak.

        2. An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom.

        At dances These young folk kept their observances. --Chaucer.

        Use all the observance of civility. --Shak.

        Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances. --Rogers.

        O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances!  --Tennyson.

        3. Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.]

        Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. --Chapman.

        This is not atheism, But court observance. --Beau. & Fl.

        Syn: Observance, Observation. These words are discriminated by the two distinct senses of observe. To observe means (1) to keep strictly; as, to observe a fast day, and hence, observance denotes the keeping or heeding with strictness; (2) to consider attentively, or to remark; and hence, observation denotes either the act of observing, or some remark  made as the result thereof. We do not say the observation of Sunday, though the word was        formerly so used. The Pharisees were curious in external observances; the astronomers  are curious in celestial observations.

        Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws. --Roscommon. 

                                            Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

rule no. 2,065 - Where any view of Money exists, Art cannot be carried on, but War only.  

Rule 2,066 -  We will never be fully understood regardless of what we attempt to say- so we must simply say whatever we please.