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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws
than with a sloven and unpresentable person.  Moral qualities rule the
world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Manners", p. 268

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