The keenest sting to one's pride is the consciousness that someone else has read one's real motives.
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The 48 Laws of Power
Power is exchanged in every room you walk into — at work, in families, in friendships — and most people are illiterate in its grammar. Robert Greene's 1998 book gathers 48 patterns by which power has been won and lost for three thousand years, drawn from courtiers, generals, con …
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