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E. Ben. ny:
Oral discourse
If you imagine you have cause for complaint against any man in the
ground of his misconduct towards you — & if it appears to you of use that he should
be informed of this, — take care that the communication be made so as to give him
the least possible annoyance; do not convey your comprehension in a way to
make him suppose you think ill of him; — so speak that he may regard you
as liking his conduct to a cause in which he is , or not at all
blameworthy. You have asked him, for example, to visit you — he has
neither sent this, nor sent an — he ought to have come — or at least
to have given a reason why he did not or could not come. Inspect his
to the possible miscarriage of your letter — as if the was a verbal
one to probable misconception on the part of the hearer, —to the misconception
or misexpression, — or forgetfulness; — for as the issuing might have but produced
by any of these causes there is no insincerity in a man's supposing as much
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