That's how you upshift a conversation so you can navigate the great political divide in a way that insights, not incites.

noises off

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[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.