<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Simple Person</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when you’re a child, you learn so much<br>of ‘grown-up’ life, of ‘grown-up’ values –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by the tone of voice<br>in which they say things</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my mother, saying of a particular person<br>whom I’d never met – or if I had, <br>would not have known what to make of them –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘She’s a simple person’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the tone of voice with which she said this<br>was full of compassion, without a touch of criticism: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it meant, she has no mind with which to make complexity.<br>Not a hint there of some label like mentally challenged, <br>or mentally under-privileged; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">rather, the purity of a soul untrammelled; <br>indeed, a state of grace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for in her day, the honourable poor<br>looked after, were at one with their simpler kin; <br>while free to honour the skilled and fortunate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I listening, wondered if I could rise to life’s challenges<br>as a simple person.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460285" data-title="The Simple Person de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and when you’re a child, you learn so much of ‘grown-up’ life, of ‘grown-up’ values – by the tone of voice in which they say things my mother, saying of a particular person whom I’d never met – or if I had, would not have known ..."></div> </div> </div>

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