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1820 Decr 12
To get any thing from him I had to surmount the
disgust produced by that hideous physiognomy and matter, which disgusted
you and with the addition of the filthy practice of cramming his
nose with snuff all the time he was cramming his
mouth with victuals, and covering my clean napkin
with the plugs of abomination filthified. At parting
was necessity compelled me to shake hands, but I had
in readiness a basin of water in readiness into which, the next moment,
they were plunged. In addition to the principles of
repulsion you had to contend with I had these. A As to reform
however, a more promising instrument for reform I know not how to figure
to myself: if I had had the money I gave t'other day to my
Brother, I should myself have employed instead of my miserable £5 some hundreds
in the support of this.
The As far as I can find, To gain now or keep now the beast away is to suppose to love
them: and the surest way to appear to love them is to
do so in reality: let powerful and powerless, rich and
poor, honest and dishonest, sincere and insincere, wise
and foolish, clean and dirty, all together:
love them the hope you expect to at expect of them, the more he will love them. of
and pure hatred instigate collectively
or individually is to show that To impart self-preference
to them individually individually, or in groups is a matter of discovering
or to shew that you do – not that he knows, but that he does not know what they are made
of. To purof. With or without wit, to indulge himself in pouring down or squirting up scorn upon their heads out of a full
chamberpot borrowed from Lord Byron, is not the
way way for a man to make either them or himself the
happier.⊞ ⊞ To make enemies
is, to all the ,
and to some the pleasanter task: to make
friends is at all times the more advantageous,
and in time
the pleasanter.
Few things are
us to give good
advice: few so difficult
as to practice it: give
me a penny and we
are .
Dear Sir, Your , it could be seen whether
too found.
Jeremy Bentham
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