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BLUNTNESS
[ Also see Candor ]

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
  Nor actions, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
    To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.
      - William Shakespeare

This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
    A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
      Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
        An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
          And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
            These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
              Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
                Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
                  That stretch their duty nicely.
      - William Shakespeare

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