Quote 25 of 40

From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments and bring
the man pure to energize.  They aid our dealing and conversation as a
railway aids traveling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions
of the road and leaving nothing to be conquered by pure space.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Manners", p. 261

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