How Courageous People Are Won Over.—Courageous people are persuaded to a course of action by representing it as more dangerous than it really is.
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Courtesies.—We regard the courtesies show us by unpopular persons as offences.
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Keeping People Waiting.—A sure way of exasperating people and of putting bad thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting long. That makes them immoral.
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Against the Confidential.—Persons who give us their full confidence think they hay thereby a right to ours. That is a mistake people acquire no rights through gifts.
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A Mode of Settlement.—It often suffices to give a person whom we have injured an opportunity to make a joke about us to give him personal satisfaction, and even to make him favourably disposed to us.
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