La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you. Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy.

If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.

... Fenimore Cooper's Indian is a fraud. ... The cigar-store red man and the statuesque Pocahontas of the vuelta abajo trade as they are paraded in literature and thus pervert the public conceptions of our Indians, THEY—I want to destroy first if possible.

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