[He isn't saying it to be mean. He's saying it because it's true.]
I know you meant well. [Probably, to begin with, even if meaning well should have led him to not doing the thing in the first place. Fiddleford can recognize that urge to do something, the kind of desperate desire to help that gets a man to dress in tight pants and sing on stage in front of hundreds of strangers. He can even respect it. It's there in him too. And that's why he knows how much trouble it can cause.]
But you -- you know you can make people happy without... [MmmMMM he doesn't know how to phrase this well] ... without not givin' them a say in it?
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[He isn't saying it to be mean. He's saying it because it's true.]
I know you meant well. [Probably, to begin with, even if meaning well should have led him to not doing the thing in the first place. Fiddleford can recognize that urge to do something, the kind of desperate desire to help that gets a man to dress in tight pants and sing on stage in front of hundreds of strangers. He can even respect it. It's there in him too. And that's why he knows how much trouble it can cause.]
But you -- you know you can make people happy without... [MmmMMM he doesn't know how to phrase this well] ... without not givin' them a say in it?