"If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves."
"We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women."
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Source: The Ultimate Happiness. Inner Directions Journal Interview, ru.scribd.com. 1995.
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