Confidence leaves us less liberty, its rules are stricter, it requires more prudence and reticence, and we are not always free to give it. It relates not only to ourselves, since our interests are often mixed up with those of others; it requires great delicacy not to expose our friends in exposing ourselves, not to draw upon their goodness to enhance the value of what we give.

Place: ¶848
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Confidence leaves us less liberty, its rules are stricter, it requires… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims