You, Sir, are a gentleman of the Old School. I am guessing, ex-military and was an officer ? They always see the best in people.
Close but not quite on all counts, but thank you. I do try to go through life assuming that everybody else wants to get things right. As an attitude, it seems most of the time to get the best out of people.
I like to read widely if I can. I wasn't allowed to study the the classics at my grammar school - I wasn't considered bright enough so they made me study design and technology and the sciences instead