Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… in the hope of advantage, they became shameful. Seneca's Morals Abstracted in Three Parts (1679) – Roger L’Estrange’s translation of which had 11 editions by 1718 – argued that ‘it is a Mean, and Dishonourable thing, to Give, for any other …
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