WHAT IS CLASS?

A profile on Plenty of Fish I just read had this clipping from a newspaper reprinted. She said her grandmother had cut it out and given it to her father who then kept it pressed inside a book he kept with him for the rest of his life. When her father died, she found it and shared it with anyone who might read her PoF profile instead of the malarkey that nearly everyone else posts in their profiles.

WHAT IS CLASS?

CLASS NEVER RUNS SCARED. IT IS SURE-FOOTED & CONFIDENT IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU CAN MEET LIFE HEAD ON AND HANDLE WHATEVER COMES ALONG.

CLASS NEVER MAKES EXCUSES. IT TAKES ITS LUMPS AND LEARNS FROM PAST MISTAKES. CLASS IS CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS. IT KNOWS THAT GOOD MANNERS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A SERIES OF PETTY SACRIFICES.

CLASS BESPEAKS AN ARISTOCRACY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANCESTORS OR MONEY. THE MOST AFFLUENT BLUEBLOOD CAN BE TOTALLY WITHOUT CLASS, WHILE THE DESCENDANT OF A WELSH MINER, MAY OOZE CLASS FROM EVERY PORE.

CLASS NEVER TRIES TO BUILD ITSELF UP BY TEARING OTHERS DOWN. CLASS IS "ALREADY" UP AND NEED NOT STRIVE TO LOOK BETTER BY MAKING OTHERS LOOK WORSE.

CLASS CAN "WALK WITH KINGS AND KEEP ITS VIRTUE AND TALK WITH CROWDS AND KEEP THE COMMON TOUCH." EVERYONE IS COMFORTABLE WITH THE PERSON WHO HAS CLASS... BECAUSE HE IS COMFORTABLE WITH HIMSELF.

IF YOU HAVE CLASS, YOU DON'T NEED MUCH OF ANYTHING ELSE. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE YOU HAVE... IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE.