____ <em>to show that building respect was a process
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I picked this because. It started with ordinary acts that made him a member of the community. He came back from the war. He married (which meant he was not likely to move in a hurry). He had a family. He had the same wife for who knows how many years. He had a business, which was not only a business but a library of information for those like him who settled in the community. His accomplishments were such that he himself never though of what they might be very much.
He was ordinary in an extraordinary way and that's what the first paragraph shows. And he built is reputation quietly and consistently over the years.
