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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
Bertrand Russell, in Mortals and Others, p. 337-38, "Good Manners and Hypocrisy", 14 December, 1934. | ||
