Candor 



consideration until subsequent and often fre- 

 quent interviews demonstrate the desirability 

 of acquaintance, and yet, without hesitation, we 

 assure the new comer into our lives that the 

 chance meeting has caused us happiness. If so, 

 happiness must be a very cheap commodity. 

 We pretend to be confident, on the instant, that 

 an added blessing is ours, and it is mere pre- 

 tense. We may mean that we hope the meeting 

 will prove productive of mutual satisfaction in 

 the future, and yet we do not dare to say so. 

 What, pray, of that quality known as candor? 



It is suggested that to go into details when a 

 matter is of no particular importance would be 

 a waste of time, and this, of itself, excuses every 

 little slip and petty frivolity of speech in polite 

 society. 



A waste of time? I take it that time with 

 candor eliminated is not worth the value usually 

 put upon it. 



"A matter of opinion," suggests a critic. 



"And what is not?" I ask. "As one that 

 rebels, I do not mean to be silenced by those 

 that subscribe to slavery. Though I turn every 

 friend to a foe I will say what I think." 



"Then you're a fool," remarks the critic. 

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