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Do not fall into the habit of asking favors. It is better to suffer than to supplicate, and asking a favor even from your dearest friend is only a mild furm of supplication. Get what yon want by yonr own unaided exertions, or go without it. There ia more dignity in penury, no matter how abj;ct, coupled with independence, than in indolent comfort gained through the grant of a favor. Do not ask for or be too ready to receive a favor. Bather cling to yonc own independencs. There are people who pretend to admire c*ndoor, and express themselves as being tired of the artificiality of modern social life and its conventionalities, also of persons who'adbere rigidly to both ; they add that, in contradistinction to such superficialities, they yearn for someone who is unsophisticated, and not afraid of being plain spoken. However, thia ia in theory, for if it became practice in all probability they would eod by avowing a preference far the more polite, if sometimes insincere, remarks of ordinary mortals.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4198, 28 August 1888, Page 3
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173ITEMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4198, 28 August 1888, Page 3
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