Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
Was she the same person to-night as last night? Was she two persons? If she was only one, which one? Or was she a mere vessel of receptiveness, a transparent vessel into which other people poured their view of her, and she instantly reflected the exact colour of their opinion?
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