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AVERAGE PEOPLE.
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On the other hand, average men or women have such a real simplicity of purpose that in evolution they skip the abortive growth of the average gentleman or lady and pass into exceptional gentlemen or ladies, who are not cast down at a mispronunciation, for the soul that is behind makes the tones of voice hit like hot shot on each emphatic word; and the handwriting bears a stamp of individuality which leaves the chance misspelling unnoticed. In such persons we are unaware of their motion, whether it is that of speed or slowness we know not, only that they are always coming to welcome us equals. We are ignorant of their personal or mental habits: the books they read, the soap or brushes they use, the clothes they wear; to be conspicuously neat and well-informed is but little less disagreeable than to be unneat or uncultured. They are far above customs, peculiarities; their methods are only known by results. Knowledge is their servant, not the

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