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There is in the world so universal & constant in
competition for the respect, esteem & love of others – the dependence
of every man upon other men is so obvious & so intimate that
a certain quantity of benevolence towards others is almost a
necessary condition of social existence. True it is that those
whose station enables them most easily to command the services
of others, – value those services least – as those who want them most
can feel the greatest difficulty in obtaining them – but there
is no man so poor who by his own prudent good conduct, may not increase the disposition
to serve him & no man so mighty
as to be able to despise the services of others without diminishing
their amount & lessening their value & efficacy. Absolute independence
is the privilege prerogative of none and were it possible to conceive
of a human being wholly sufficient to his own enjoyments –
a human being deriving neither pleasure nor pain from
the persons or the events which surrounded him – so far from he would be
no object of envy – compared with him "the hyssop on the
wall" would be privileged– since some sympathy consideration – some regard
would might now & then be flung upon it – while for the man
removed from the regions of sympathy, would at the same
time be removed from those of beneficence.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	354	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f30
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5570
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