Listen to the author read these lines aloud. 

Declaration

I do not exist
for the benefit of other people 
but for my own benefit.

I did not create this fact, and
I am not to blame for it.

Times and circumstances can
and do exist in which it is to my benefit
to benefit other people, but this is
not the prevailing condition, and
generally it is rare.

by Robert Hampton Burt
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