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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
96
Never
again
shall
I
shake
hands
with
man
or
woman
who
is
not
in
truth
my
friend.
Never
again
shall
I
go
to
see
acquaintances
with
whom
I
have
no
acquaintance.
All
men
my
brothers?
Nay,
thank
Heaven,
that
they
are
not!
I
will
do
harm,
if
I
can
help
it,
to
no
one;
I
will
wish
good
to
all;
but
I
will
make
no
pretence
of
personal
kindliness
where,
in
the
nature
of
things,
it
cannot
be
felt.
I
have
grimaced
a
smile
and
pattered
unmeaning
words
to
many
a
person
whom
I
despised
or
from
whom
in
heart
I
shrank;
I
did
so
because
I
had
not
courage
to
do
otherwise.
For
a
man
conscious
of
such
weakness,
the
best
is
to
live
apart
from
the
world.
Brave
Samuel
Johnson!
One
such
truth-teller
is
worth
all
the
moralists
and
preachers
who
ever
laboured
to
humanise
mankind.
Had
he
withdrawn
into
solitude,
it
would
have
been
a
national
loss.
Every
one
of
his
blunt,
fearless
words
had
more
value
than
a
whole
evangel
on
the
lips
of
a
timidly
good
man.
It
is
thus
that
the
commonalty,
however
well
clad,
should
be
treated.
So
seldom
does
the
fool
or
the
ruffian
in
broadcloth
hear
his
just
designation;
so
seldom
is
the
man
found
who
has
a
right
to
address
him
by
it.
By
the
bandying
of
insults
we
profit
nothing;
there
can
be
no
useful
rebuke
which
is
exposed
to
a
tu
quoque.
But,
as
the
world
is,
an
honest
and
wise
man
should
have
a
rough
tongue.
Let
him
speak
and
spare
not!
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