Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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