Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations."
En el curso de su vida encontrará usted mucha gente que le confía sus secretos, involuntariamente, de un modo instintivo, y ello, porque usted prefiere, a hablar de sí misma, oír hablar de sí mismos a los demás, escuchándoles con una natural simpatía, que es más agradable y anima más porque no es inoportuna en sus manifestaciones.