Remember what they taught you when you were a kid:

It’s better to give than to receive.

Sure, it sounds nice.  But no one really believes it.

After all aren’t these our basic assumptions about human nature and the ways of the world?

• No good deed goes unpunished (Clair Boothe Luce).
• When a fellow says, “It is not the money but the principle of the thing,” it`s the money (Kin Hubbard).
• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody (Agatha Christie).
• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing (Napoleon).
• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

It may be a cynical way of looking at life, but we had better learn to live with it if we want to get ahead.

Or do we?

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