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Once more: all people value most what has cost them much labour

in the production; for instance, people who have themselves made

their money are fonder of it than those who have inherited it:

and receiving kindness is, it seems, unlaborious, but doing it is

laborious. And this is the reason why the female parents are most

fond of their offspring; for their part in producing them is

attended with most labour, and they know more certainly that they

are theirs. This feeling would seem also to belong to

benefactors.

Chapter VIII.