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the force of those temptations. If this constriction
be not the truest it is at any rate the least
severe; and that which of all those the two only one which
an the adversary would be disposed will ever think proper to put upon
your conduct, you could prefer subscribing to.
If you are not that interested knavish thing animal called
a turncoat whose changes are brought about regard for his own interest is the
cause of all his changes, you are that paltry despicable
thing called shuttlecock or a weathercock,
whose changes being brought about by no principle
that any one chooses to be attributed to
him, are to be considered as resulting from the
negation of all principle. Pretence Of the two characters
between which two your only choice, the knave
and the fool: your choice does not hesitate. The
knave is he who is the object of a hatred aversion mingled
more or less with fear: the fool is he who is
the object of a contempt that is of hatred av aversion without fear.
What You know well enough, if not be reason, by
habit and the sort of instinct which results from
habit is that the the sort of treatment which you will
receive from those who fear you as well as
hate is much more desirable than that which
you will receive from those who f hate you
without fearing you.
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