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The Evil Moment.—Lively dispositions only lie for a moment: after this they have deceived themselves, and are convinced and honest.
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The Condition of Politeness.—Politeness is a very good thing, and really one of the four chief virtues (although the last), but in order that it may not result in our becoming tiresome to one another the person with whom I have to deal must be either one degree more or less polite than I—otherwise we should never get on, and the ointment would not only anoint us, but would cement us together.