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The older I get, the more I seem to be affected by the death of those who matter -- those people who truly make a difference. So it is with Tony Snow, whose death this morning saddens me immensely. A news anchor today read the famous 1930 passage by John Walter Wayland and dedicated it to Tony Snow. If you're not familiar with Wayland's words, reflect on them here. I think you'll agree that this passage does, in fact, have Tony Snow's name all over it.
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
Rest in peace, Tony Snow.
(sigh)
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