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La Rochefoucauld 278: What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us i...
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What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honour of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_278
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