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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.

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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent m...more

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In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life and human destiny, which, from the very first, m...more

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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; ...more