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"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

- Bertrand Russell

Please keep this in mind. Better to abandon someone altogether than insult them with some sort of obvious "noblesse oblige".

(thanks to autodidactic for finding this quote)

FYI

LJ's been sending comments to my inbox in some weird, out of sequence order.