“How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact.”
Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living
“Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come in personal contact, at the expense of public interests, that is of those whom they never see, is the besetting sin of public men.”
Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 23. p. 176
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