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"So and so's a bit hot-tempered and not quite up to the curling nostrils of modern society; he may cause amusement by his countrified haircut....and yet he's a good man. "
He's not fasionable or politically correct, but that doesn't change his good character. People turn up their noses at him (people in low working classes like a janator, or maybe just someone socially clumsy.)



"So give yourself a shaking in case the seeds of wickedness have already been planted in you by nature or by some bad habit. if you once neglect a field bracken appears which eventually has to be burnt out."
Rumors and popular opinion are seeds of wickedness that take root and turn to bad attitudes toward each other. if you neglect to rid yourself of these opiniuns of others, you will have a relationship (field) which is not fertile and healthy, but filled with weeds. (strife) Think of the high-school drama that comes from stories about students. If every popular kid looks down on one student, it will sway the opinion of those who have never met him, but worse, it can turn his own friends against him.


"Think instead of how a yong man, blindly in love, fails to notice his girl-friend's blemioshes or even finds them enchanting."
focus on the good in people, rather than turning everything bad. Even take their faults and think of them as enchanting quirks, not vices.