Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.
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