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Choose a fit time for that reproof which effective benevolence
demands. If a failure have taken place on the part of any
individual toward you avoid mentioning it at the moment,
for nothing you can say will cause that not to have happened
which has happened. The tendency of your observation
will naturally & necessarily be to produce suffering on his
part, – & that ill humour toward you which is the
result of his suffering.

If a similar occasion is likely to occur, then &
then only, just before the occasion if you see a prospect that your interposition will be of use is the time for recalling
to his mind the former failure. The influence effect will thus
be first influential at the moment when it is wanted
& all the intermediate suffering will be spared.

But remember that of useless reproof pure evil
is the consequence – evil certain and considerable in the
humiliation of the person reproved – evil contingent in
the loss of his amity and the exposure to his enmity.

These lessons may be resumed in a single
sentence: Blame nobody but for preventing further cause
of blame.

Identifier: | JB/015/503/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	503	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f188
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5719
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