Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
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