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We all need a new social intercourse, which shall breathe genuine
refinement; which shall unite the two great elements of politeness,
self-respect and a delicate regard to the rights and feelings of others;
which shall be free without rudeness, and earnest without positiveness;
which shall be graceful, yet warmhearted; and in which communication shall
be frank, unlabored, overflowing, through the absence of all assumption
and pretense, and through the consciousness of being safe from heartless
ridicule.”
~William Ellery Channing ~ |
