insouciance,

plenipotentiary

insouciant

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”14

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

It is necessary for me to be extremely frugal for some time, till I have paid what I owe. 2. To endeavor to speak truth in every instance; to give nobody expectations that are not likely to be answered, but aim at sincerity in every word and action—the most amiable excellence in a rational being. 3. To apply myself industriously to whatever busines

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”2

It told of Abraham giving food and shelter to a 198-year-old man, then throwing him out when he said he did not believe in Abraham’s God. The parable concluded: And at midnight God called upon Abraham, saying, Abraham where is the stranger? And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee; neither would he call upon thy name. Therefor

“Some may think these trifling matters not worth minding,” Franklin said, but they should remember that “human felicity is produced . . . by little advantages that occur every day.”10