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3790. HONORS, Hostile to happiness.—
There are minds which can be pleased by
honors and preferments; but I see nothing in
them but envy and enmity. It is only necessary
to possess them, to know how little they
contribute to happiness, or rather how hostile
they are to it.—
To A. Donald. Washington ed. ii, 356.
(P.
1788)
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