An American had meant to him an overaggressive boor; but in this young Morton he found as fine a gentleman as even he could wish for, a man also without the flaws of artificial mannerisms.
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An American had meant to him an overaggressive boor; but in this young Morton he found as fine a gentleman as even he could wish for, a man also without the flaws of artificial mannerisms.
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If the field agent who finds himself in this situation has still in him a trace of the same attitude shown by the man with whom he is dealing—that of suspicion and an overaggressive determination not to be imposed upon—then it becomes virtually certain that the field agent is going to fail to be a true interpreter of the real attitude of the income-tax unit, which is that he is not out to get scalps or make a showing but to see to it that both the taxpayer and the Government get full justice in the adjustment of their income-tax transactions.
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Aggressiveness is perhaps the quality around which most danger centres—it is the thin ice of salesmanship. The line that divides the spineless man from the bulldog type is not well defined. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Likewise’ the overaggressive plunge, when all the rules of salesmanship tell them to tread softly.
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The attitudes formed at this early stage of life become integral factors of the mature personality. The final result may be either of two types: the submissive, retiring personality, which is a direct expression of a feeling of inferiority, or the overaggressive, dominating personality, which is at bottom only an attempt to escape from inferiority feelings through compensatory activities.
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