The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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