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I Am Said To Be Difficult Of Acquaintance, Unwilling To Meet Any One Half Way, And Showing A Social Manner Which Is Easy, Not Diffident, But Formal And Unresponsive, Tending Constantly To Hold People Off.

When A Beggar Asks Us For A Quarter, Our Instinct Is To Say That The State Has Already Confiscated Our Quarter For His Benefit, And He Should Go To The State About It.

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

Perhaps One Reason For The Falling-off Of Belief In A Continuance Of Conscious Existence Is To Be Found In The Quality Of Life That Most Of Us Lead. There Is Not Much In It With Which, In Any Kind Of Reason, One Can Associate The Idea Of Immortality.

Man Tends Always To Satisfy His Needs And Desires With The Least Possible Exertion.