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12 Urbanity, is a very ambiguous description of a virtue.
That portion of it which is denominated good temper or good
nature is an idiosyncratic element – a part of a person's
constitutional or physical identity for which no title of vice or
virtue can be properly claimed. Where urbanity is the result of an
effort made to give pleasure to another, – where it infuses
benignity into a word or action, – makes the gracious thing more
gracious, & takes from that which is unacceptable to another
all unnecessary infliction of pain – & where in a word it takes
the character of benevolence, – there, – & there is only is virtue.
But beyond that benevolence there is no virtue at all – &
there is no virtue except in the benevolence. Where
Urbanity then is intitled to the honors of virtue, as there, in all
those cases where efficient benevolence is its guide & sovereign –
with the understanding that prudence makes no sacrifice
of pleasure greater in value than the pleasure won by that
benevolence.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	375	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f50
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	i i smith & son 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	maria edgeworth
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5591
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