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If they cared enough, they would show it in being affable, pleasant, kind--that is, they would suppress their egoism sufficiently to make such decent manners possible. But they don't: they care too much for their own ego to let it happen.
-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 146