One should conceal one's wounds and hide the crippling deficiencies of life -- poverty, misfortune, sickness, ill-success. People begin by being touched and moved to tenderness by their friends' distress; presently this changes to pity, which has something humiliating about it; then to a masterful giving of advice; and then to scorn.
Quoted in "The Far Side of the World" by Patrick O'Brian
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