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John Buchanan Robinson Quotes: According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
         

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.


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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.



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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.



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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.



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There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.



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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.



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