For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

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