TWO CLASSES.
There are two classes of people — those who seem born to dominate and those horn to submit. Boots and door-mats," writes Grenville Kleiser. " The uses of the doormat personality are almost wholly negative. They are mainly not arguing, not disagreelng, nor criticising. The human doormats seem to have no personality. The quality that these people possess is sometimes described as amiability, and they are praised for it. ' So easy to get on with,' ' Such an agrecablo person.' one hears said of them. It may be true; hut they are not praisoworthy on that account. Why are they so acquiescent? Why do they agree so earnestly with X at one moment and equally earnestly with the diametrically-opposed Y the next? It is because they are, reallv, indolent. It is too mueh trouble to think things out for themselves; they 'dislike arguing.' Obviously this isn't even common honesty. It is a trick, and a lazy trick, to win easy popularity. Of course, they don't mean it so; they would be horrified if they thought that such a criticism could be applied to them. But that is exactly because. they do not think, " "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 122, 9 June 1937, Page 4
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