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Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;--to bear others' company is easier for them than to bear their own.
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It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
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The prime reason for social intercourse is mutual need; and as soon as that is satisfied, boredom drives people together once more.