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“The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.”

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Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
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