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The desire of pleasing makes a Man agreeable, or unwelcome to those with whom he converses, according to the motive from which the inclination appears to flow. If your concern for pleasing others, arises from innate benevolence, it never fails of success; if, from a vanity to excel, its disappointment is no less certain. What we call an agreeable man is he who is endowed with a natural bent to do acceptable things from the delight he takes in them, merely as such: & the affectation of that [[underline]] character constitutes [[/underline]] the fop. on Voltaire You are so witty, profligate & thin You seem a Milton with his death & Sin.
