"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."

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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

— William Hazlitt