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A remote but not unimportant consequence of a habit of
effective benevolence is that in case of rupture between yourself
& any associate of yours the presumption antecedently to a
particular investigation will be in your favor in the minds
of your common associates. The habit. – which, being a
habit will have exhibited itself in the presence of others –
has laid up for you a fund of reputation in the
minds of other men, which will influence their judgment
without your knowing it.
If you have deserved, as you will have deserved, the
credit of abstaining from all those causes of offence
which ordinarily are supposed to justify reprisals
the advantage of so honorable a distinction will be your
acquittal in doubtful cases of blame – & an unwillingness
on all occasions to receive evidence tending to shake your acquired fame.
Your character will be your justification.
Identifier: | JB/015/538/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
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