A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
In our day, this advice is a recipe for disaster. In Addison's time a man's heart, or at least an English gentleman's heart, had a good chance of being well formed and so often was a reasonable guide, and the society around him also more often than not condemned what was evil and promoted what was good. Not so today.
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