I haven't forgotten manners, [ implied (to someone listening — and isn't this a rarity?) that others do ] Though matters are different here. It's required adjustment.
One may justify a great deal upon feeling. Glass becomes a mirror. If you won't take it amiss, I'd not speak of that widely.
Your secret's safe with me. ( since apparently no one else is looking for it. after a moment; )
There's a saying about how you should measure a person not by how they treat their equals, but by how they treat their inferiors, I'm sure you've heard it. Someone once said to me that's good enough, so far as it goes, but that it misses the forest for the trees if it doesn't examine how that person chooses their inferiors.
( this is just an interesting conversation they are having, about interesting things. is all.
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One may justify a great deal upon feeling. Glass becomes a mirror. If you won't take it amiss, I'd not speak of that widely.
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Your secret's safe with me. ( since apparently no one else is looking for it. after a moment; )
There's a saying about how you should measure a person not by how they treat their equals, but by how they treat their inferiors, I'm sure you've heard it. Someone once said to me that's good enough, so far as it goes, but that it misses the forest for the trees if it doesn't examine how that person chooses their inferiors.
( this is just an interesting conversation they are having, about interesting things. is all.
she exhales. )
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[ an impolite question, but they've already dispensed with courtesy ]
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( honestly. )