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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.

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It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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