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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.
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good. Mutual peculiarities are, however, to be understood and avoided; thinking of them is amusing, speaking is dangerous; capacities are to be recognized, claims adjusted, self-seeking avoided. When will men and women be large enough to accept another's valuation of them which does not place them where they put themselves? How many are there who are willing to lead until fitter persons are found, and who then will withdraw, feeling grateful that they have done some good, and still more grateful that others can accomplish better results than they? How many are there who are brave enough to accept the mandates of a liberality that gives one measure and refuses another; that understands weakness and strength? Clubs, unions, societies, organizations of all kinds, political, social, reformatory, or beneficent, will never reach their highest consummation, nor will society be a broad, deep channel of usefulness and pleasure, until liberality is the patent

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