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Show 8linc Generally dut. To HiiffVr In slltiiw, to refrain from niiNwerllig the bitterest of eii'mnux places mi on a vmntuge point vitxtly uMrlor to those who would Inlure iih and discounts what they limy say. (lOHMip only becomes xeiioiia when we countenance by denial. Hlleiit contempt con-tempt Kpeiikn louder than the moxt vociferous contradictions. Nothing .Is harder to bear In silence than vilification, vilifica-tion, yet that it Ih the part of wlmlom to do wo Ih Illustrated dully. There may come ft time In our lives when saying nothing will seem to he an acknowledgment ac-knowledgment of guilt and then will he given an opportunity to reply to calumniators. But the ordinary little backbiting of every day life are best met in steadfast silence. In replying to them we are apt to lose our temper and our dignity, which is both foollsl. and futile. Kxchnngp. |