# Read the passage twice. Name the value it holds up. When did you last act against that value because the cost felt too high?

_Theme: **core_values** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-24_

> All that fashion demands is composure and self-content. A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared. If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing. We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Essays - Second Series_

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