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have any chance of persuading him (or indeed any body else
of that extreme difficulty which you say you find in it.
There are not many ways in which you can have it in
your power to oblige him; and when what he wishes you
to do, and that so obviously, in what is apparently at
least to your advantage, I really see not what you can have
to say that will appear plausible against it.
He always has been and always shall be he says, ready
to contribute do every thing in his power to contribute to
your happiness &c, &c, &c, and in one of the very
few occasions that you can have of doing any thing to oblige
him, would you peremptorily refuse it? If you ever
have any thing to ask him for he will be flinging this
in your teeth - and what "No - you will do nothing for
"me - I won't do any thing for you"— And what can
you have to say in your defence.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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