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It Is Partly To Avoid Consciousness Of Greed That We Prefer To Associate With Those Who Are At Least As Greedy As We Ourselves. Those Who Consume Much Less Are A Reproach.

By Recognizing A Favorable Opinion Of Yourself, And Taking Pleasure In It, You In A Measure Give Yourself And Your Peace Of Mind Into The Keeping Of Another, Of Whose Attitude You Can Never Be Certain. You Have A New Source Of Doubt And Apprehension.

To Have No Heroes Is To Have No Aspiration, To Live On The Momentum Of The Past, To Be Thrown Back Upon Routine, Sensuality, And The Narrow Self.

The Imaginations Which People Have Of One Another Are The Solid Facts Of Society.

If The Man Succeeds In Becoming Indifferent To The Opinions Of His Neighbors He Runs Into Another Danger, That Of A Distorted And Extravagant Self Of The Pride Sort, Since By The Very Process Of Gaining Independence And Immunity From The Stings Of Depreciation And Misunderstanding, He Has Perhaps Lost That Wholesome Deference To Some Social Tribunal That A Man Cannot Dispense With And Remain Quite Sane.