People
Guard carefully against letting discontent appear in you; it is sorrow to your friends, a triumph to your competitors, and cannot be productive of any good.
— Admiral Collingwood
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This counsels hiding your discontent, giving three reasons: it saddens friends, delights rivals, and achieves nothing useful. It's practical advice about how visible unhappiness affects the people around you, treating a bad mood as something with social costs and no upside.
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