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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: genteelest address, or the most brilliant wit, cannot
eventually secure a coquette from contempt and
ridicule.
MANLY
And I have learned that probity, virtue, honour,
though they should not have received the polish of
Europe, will secure to an honest American the good
graces of his fair countrywomen, and, I hope, the
applause of THE PUBLIC.
THE END.
NOTES.
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