Good Manners Cost Nothing Comments

This is just brilliant. I love the dialect. the salt of the earth characters *, the moral tag of the one virtue the speaker always upheld, almost as if it were a force of nature and not a human invention. When a person is so devoted to a particular value, finds it reinforced in experience after experience, he us at the center of a moral universe that is remarkable. (*) Is salt of the earth an idiom familiar to you? It refers to common decency, things that are self-evident in their rightness. There is a great film about the visionary photographer Sebastio Salgado called THE SALT OF THE EARTH. He is a modern secular saint. We need more men like him.

Ah'! A very cute write filled with much truth! ! ! !