Peck Believes

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    A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.
    Chinese proverb.

    Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful.... I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (1846–1870)