Lime Tree #23 24 мая 1996

all of us - On the politeness: criteria-mannered person.

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   All of us dedicated ...


   Educated people, in my opinion, should satisfy
the following conditions:

   1) They respect human personality, and therefore always
indulgent, gentle, polite and compliant. They do not riot over
hammer or missing gum; living with someone they do not
this favor, and leaving not say: you can not live! They
forgive and noise, and cold and overdone meat, and sharpness, 
and presence in their accommodation of strangers.


   2) They are not compassionate to the poor, and only one of 
the cats. 

   3) They respect others' property and therefore pay the debts.

   4) They are upright and are afraid to lie, like a fire, do 
not lie, they even in trifles. Lie and an insult to the 
listener in his vulgarizes the eyes of the speaker. They do not 
draw, keep themselves on the street as well at home, do not 
poke in the eye youngest brother ... They are not chatty and do 
not climb with confidence, when they do not ask ... of respect 
for other people's ears, they are mostly silent. 

   5) They do not degrade yourself with the intent to cause 
another sympathy. They do not play on the strings of other 
people's souls, that in response to them sighing and nursed 
them. They do not say: "I do not understand!" or "I traded in 
tzedakah !"... because all this effort a cheap effect, vulgar, 
old, out of tune. 

   6) They are not vain. They do not occupy such rhinestones,
both dating celebrities, and making for a penny, they do not
worn with his folder on a hundred rubles, and do not brag about 
the fact that their allowed to go where others were not allowed 
... 

   True talent always sit in the dark, the crowd away
from the show ... Even Krylov said that an empty barrel louder 
than complete.


   7) If they have a talent, I respect him. They sacrifice
for him peace, women, wine and bustle ...

   8) They raise the aesthetics. They can not fall asleep
clothes, see cracks on the wall with a buggy, crappy breathe 
the air, spat on the floor to walk on, eat from kerosene lamps. 
They try to may tame the sexual instinct and ennoble. They need 
to women are not the bed, not a horse sweat, not the mind, in 
vyrazhayushiysya ability to give and lie relentlessly ... Them, 
especially artists, Need freshness, grace, humanity, the 
ability to be not litter, and his mother ...


   They do not crack resembling vodka, snuff boxes, because they
know that they are not pigs. They drink only when free, when
case.

Anton Chekhov - Chekhov, AN 1886
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