Why?
I’m not undervaluing the necessity tor frankness in friendship when I say that I find the friend who’s always speaking her mind, in season and out of season, rather a tiring person. I remember hearing a person once say, in detence of her tactlessness, "Oh, but I always feel I must speak my mind!" and the icy reply from an older and more. experienced person, "Why? Is it a particularly valuable mind?" Harsh, perhaps, but there was a lot of truth in it.--("Between Ourselves," Mary Scott, 2YA, August 13.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 5
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90Why? New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 5
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