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PART II WEALTH
 

CHAPTER 102

SENSITIVENESS TO SHAME

1011. The blush of the worthy is for action that become them not : it is therefore quite different to the blush of the fair.

1012. Food, clothing, and progeny are common unto all men : it is in the sensibility to shame that they differ from one another.

1013. The body is the seat of all life : but a virtuous blush is the dwelling place of worth.

1014. Is not the jewel of the worthy their sense of shame? And when a man hath it not, is not his swagger an affliction unto the eye to behold ?

1015. Behold the men that blush as much for others' disgrace as for their own : they will be called the very dwelling place of delicacy.

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