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  • Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社