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Abstain from holding up to a man's view imperfections which it
is clearly beyond his power to remedy or remove. The value
of your abstention will be in the ratio of your elevation above
his position. If his position be superior to yours, prudence
should teach you forbearance – if you be so little dependent
on him that his ill will can do you no sort of mischief
effective benevolence requires that you should cause him no
useless suffering.
Such forbearance is demanded whether the infirmity
is intellectual, – moral, – or corporeal: and it is demanded
even in the absence of others, – it is more strongly demanded
in their presence.
One never failing result of
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