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PrintSmith wrote: Let me be the first to assure you lad that the exchange between us has been quite entertaining to everyone but yourself and will continue to be so for as long as your miscreant behavior persists. You would have been much better off correcting your mistake when it was first pointed out. Check the results of your own poll when you reply to this post. Despite the disagreement with her politics, and many times her demeanor, the votes for Sheen ended the moment I challenged the malicious nature of your thread. It was at that point that your charade ended lad, you simply have been so intent on continuing in your adolescent fit that you have not noticed it yet.
You have already lost the battle here Baileyboy, the poll shows that quite clearly. The only question that remains is how long it is going to take for you to be a man about it and stop defending what is indefensible. You can choose to do what is right at any point here son, but harbor no illusions that your belligerent refusal to do so alters the state of things in the slightest. You've been defeated boy. I did what was right for a man to do and the results of your poll clearly show that. Right now folks are looking at this thread simply to see how long it takes you to figure that out for yourself and amusing themselves at the amount of public humiliation you are bringing upon yourself while that knowledge remains elusive.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good humor, will go far towards securing to you the estimation of the world.
I have mentioned good humor as one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquillity. It is among the most effectual, and it's effect is so well imitated and aided artificially by politeness, that this also becomes an acquisition of first rate value. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society all the little conveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another! When this is in return for a rude thing said by another, it brings him to his senses, it mortifies and corrects him in the most salutary way, and places him at the feet of your good nature in the eyes of the company.
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PrintSmith wrote: Give it up son, the only hole being dug here is the one that will eventually house your reputation and each post you make here only makes the grave that much deeper. The biggest thing standing in the way of Jefferson's republicanism in this nation are those such as yourself who lend nothing to it save a bitter taste in the mouth that masks the richness of its flavor and its desirability as a staple in the national political diet.
You are doing more harm than good lad, both to your own reputation and to that of republican principles in general. Ponder, for a moment, the wisdom of Jefferson, parsed from a letter written to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, in 1808 in which he was attempting to pass along the wisdom he had acquired:A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good humor, will go far towards securing to you the estimation of the world.
I have mentioned good humor as one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquillity. It is among the most effectual, and it's effect is so well imitated and aided artificially by politeness, that this also becomes an acquisition of first rate value. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society all the little conveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another! When this is in return for a rude thing said by another, it brings him to his senses, it mortifies and corrects him in the most salutary way, and places him at the feet of your good nature in the eyes of the company.
The entire letter can be found here: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/tj3/writing ... efl187.htm
It is my hope that you may benefit from the wisdom it contains as much as he hoped his grandson would.
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