“The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.”

—  Eric Hoffer

Section 113 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+pleasure+we+derive+from+doing+favors+is+partly+in+the+feeling+it+gives+us+that+we+are+not+altogether+worthless%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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