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Let us grow out of the idea that because we do some one a favor or render him a service, that he is thereby under some transcendent obligation to us. Let us recognize the truth—that it is we who are obliged if he will permit us to do him a favor.
Let us grow out of the idea that because we do some one a favor or render him a service, that he is thereby under some transcendent obligation to us. Let us recognize the truth—that it is we who are obliged if he will permit us to do him a favor.
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- Lilian Whiting
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 469; printed byline: Lilian Whiting; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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