Show The Vnlnn of Measure The person who screams or uses the superlative degree or converses with heat puts whole drawingrooms to flight If you wish to be loved love measure You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you will hide the want of measure The perception comes in to polish and perfect the part of the social instrument Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts but being in its nature a convention con-vention i loves what is conventional or what belongs to coming together That maks the good and bad manners man-ners namely what helps or hinders fellowship For fashion is not good sense absolute but relative not good sense private but but good sense entertaining enter-taining company I hates corners and sharp points of character hates quarrelsome quar-relsome egotistical solitary and gloomy people hates whatever can interfere in-terfere with total blending of parties while i values all particularities in the highest degree refreshing which can consist with good fellowship And besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society a the costliest addition to its rule and its credit Emerson |