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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
People who expect deference resent mere civility.
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.