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Among the lessons of extra regarding prudence that which teaches us to
brook the Insolence of office is not the least valuable. How to compose one's
self when annoyed by it. How shall that insolence be divested of its sting of annoyance.

Consider yourself as having to do with a stock
or a stone. In that case there is no use in giving expression to
resentment as little in the other In that case no mischief
results to yourself from such the expression of irritation: in this case mischief indefinite.

If your social position enables you successfully to
resist the disposition of men in power to worry others
by the exposition display of their authority – good service may
be done by your appealing against, – by your resisting
their pretensions – but if you can neither serve others
– nor serve yourself – by rebellion against those pretensions –
subdue your disposition to break out into fruitless
contention. Save yourself from vexation by preventing
your own irascible passions from whipping your
susceptibilities into open expressed discontent. Think that
the possession of power in the hands of others is in itself a means of
annoying you – & take care that the occasion is
not given to them.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	466	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f151
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5682
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