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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
Seneca the Younger
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He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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