Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
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The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular enemy, the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in assembling, they devote a very small fraction of the time to the consideration of any public object, most of it to the prosecution of their own objects. Meanwhile each fancies that no harm will come of his neglect, that it is the business of somebody else to look after this or that for him and so, by the same notion being entertained by all separately, the common cause imperceptibly decays.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
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