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The first point of courtesy must always be truth
Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
No rentroll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation; and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
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↗Essays, Second Series (1844)gutenberg.org
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