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coarseness and rudeness of behaviour. Never 

 was there a greater mistake. No man likes to 

 be treated with disrespect; and, when he finds 

 that he can obtain respect only by treating 

 others with respect, he will use that only means. 

 When he finds that neither haughtiness nor 

 wealth will bring him a civil word, he becomes 

 civil himself; and, I repeat it again and again, 

 this is a country of universal civility. 



346. The causes of hypocrisy are the fear of 

 loss and the hope of gain. Men crawl to those, 

 whom, in their hearts, they despise, because 

 they fear the effects of their ill-will and hope to 

 gain by their good-will. The circumstances of 

 all ranks are so easy here, that there is no cause 

 for hypocrisy ; and the thing is not of so fasci 

 nating a nature, that men should love it for its 

 own sake. 



347. The boasting of wealth, and the endea 

 vouring to disguise poverty, these two acts, so 

 painful to contemplate, are almost total strangers 

 in this country ; for, no man can gain adulation 

 or respect by his wealth, and no man dreads 

 the effects of poverty, because no man sees any 

 dreadful effects arising from poverty. 



348. That anxious eagerness to get on, which 

 is seldom unaccompanied with some degree of 

 envy of more successful neighbours, and which 

 has its foundation first in a dread of future want, 



