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He is base who receives favors and renders none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from who we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882

Journals[1836]

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