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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Henry Melvill
We cannot merely exist for our individual benefit. Thousands of links bind us to other human beings; and these bonds, like sympathetic strands, propagate the consequences of our behavior, which are later reflected back to us.