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If you put 500 compliments into one scale & a censure into the other, which will weigh the most? If you send a person a present of 500 birds of Paradise & include a polecat, where is the beneficiary's attention going to be centered?
- Notebook #32, published in Pudd'nhead Wilson (2024)

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