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— Seneca the Younger"You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation."
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
— Seneca the Younger
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The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.
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