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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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