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Why do you undertake a
commission, if you are either going to neglect it or to turn it to your own advantage?
Why do you offer yourself to me, and by feigned service hinder and prevent my advantage?
Get out of the way, I will do my business by means of some one else. You undertake the
burden of a duty which you think you are able to support; a duty which does not appear
very heavy to those who are not very worthless themselves.
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