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  • There are some also who, either from zeal in attending to their own business or through some sort of aversion to their fellow-men, claim that they are occupied solely with their own affairs, without seeming to themselves to be doing anyone any injury.

    Chris Kelly: One Bright Spot: Meg Whitman Eats It Chris Kelly 2010

  • There are some also who, either from zeal in attending to their own business or through some sort of aversion to their fellow-men, claim that they are occupied solely with their own affairs, without seeming to themselves to be doing anyone any injury.

    Chris Kelly: One Bright Spot: Meg Whitman Eats It Chris Kelly 2010

  • In mid-fifteenth-century Italy, Franciscan monks formed church-based financial societies and pawnshops called monti di pietà, charitable economic institutions that allowed Christians to loan money at interest to Christians.100 As one Franciscan explained in his history of these outfits, the problem was that Jews and Lombards advanced money in order to enrich themselves and not to serve their “fellow-men” out of “Christian charity.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • There are some also who, either from zeal in attending to their own business or through some sort of aversion to their fellow-men, claim that they are occupied solely with their own affairs, without seeming to themselves to be doing anyone any injury.

    Chris Kelly: One Bright Spot: Meg Whitman Eats It Chris Kelly 2010

  • I had lost taste for my fellow-men and all their foolish, little, serious endeavours.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Let us lap ourselves in dreams of what our fellow-men will be.

    City and Village 2010

  • -- You remember the Samurai that H.G. Wells describes in his Modern Utopia -- the superior breed of men who know things and are masters of life and of their fellow-men in a super-benevolent, super-wise way?

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • There are some also who, either from zeal in attending to their own business or through some sort of aversion to their fellow-men, claim that they are occupied solely with their own affairs, without seeming to themselves to be doing anyone any injury.

    Chris Kelly: One Bright Spot: Meg Whitman Eats It Chris Kelly 2010

  • Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellow-men.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • In mid-fifteenth-century Italy, Franciscan monks formed church-based financial societies and pawnshops called monti di pietà, charitable economic institutions that allowed Christians to loan money at interest to Christians.100 As one Franciscan explained in his history of these outfits, the problem was that Jews and Lombards advanced money in order to enrich themselves and not to serve their “fellow-men” out of “Christian charity.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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