Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Class is the ability to maintain one's integrity and humility in any social setting.
The quote emphasizes that true class involves the ability to navigate between different social strata while maintaining a sense of self-respect and humility. It suggests that someone who possesses class is comfortable in their own skin, allowing others to feel at ease around them regardless of their social status.
Themes
ClassVirtueComfortSelf-RespectHumilityRelationships
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about personal development at a networking event.
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