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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Bryant H. McGill

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Bryant H. McGill
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 29
Author
Journalist
Sports Commentator
New Orleans
Louisiana
Many
Civilization
Refinement
Way
Ways
Gallery
Men
Beauty
Courtesy
Dark
Heroic
Art
Silver
Around
Cruelty
Part
Vast
Baseness
Best
Clouds
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