Now I see, however,‘ – he exhaled smoke slowly – ‘that it is with them as with all men – in certain matters they are wise, and in others most foolish. Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.
-Rudyard Kipling
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