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True Culture.

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The highest culture is to speak no ill;     The best reformer is the man whose eyes     Are quick to see all beauty and all worth;     And by his own discreet, well-ordered life,     Alone reproves the erring.         When they gaze     Turns it on thine own soul, be most severe.     But when it falls upon a fellow-man     Let kindliness control it; and refrain     From that belittling censure that springs forth     From common lips like weeds from marshy soil.

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