Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
彬彬有礼就是承认人人都娇弱，必须戴起手套小心对付。可是对人的尊重则另当别论了，你不随便把一个人称作懦夫或说谎者。可是如果你一辈子都小心翼翼，唯恐伤人的心而说好听的话使他们舒服，那你就分别不出他们有哪些地方值得尊重了。
——菲茨杰拉德《夜色温柔》
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