“The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he…”

“The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he ought, seldom fails to obtain from other people all the esteem that he himself thinks due. He desires no more than is due to him, and he rests upon it with complete satisfaction.”

— Adam Smith

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Section III.

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