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• "Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. [Sp., Cada uno es come Dios le hijo, y aun peor muchas vezes.]"
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (XI, 5) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Every one is the son of his own works."
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. XX) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot."
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. VIII) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "It can be said of him. When he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in the "London and Westminister Review"
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• "Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Goethe, in the "Edinburgh Review"
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• "It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Signs of the Times
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• "Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free."
  By: Henry Carey, The Contrivances (act I, sc. 2, l. 22)
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• "With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Lara (canto I, st. 18)
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• "So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility, Which many people take for want of heart. They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility, A thing of temperament and not of art, Though seeming so, from its supposed facility; And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XVI, st. 97)
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• "Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VI, st. 7)
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• "There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled."
  By: Richard Eugene Burton, Black Sheep
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• "Decision of character is one of the most important of human qualities, philosophically considered. Speculation, knowledge, is not the chief end of man; it is action. * * * "Give us the man," shout the multitude, "who will step forward and take the responsibility." He is instantly the idol, the lord and the king among men. He, then, who would command among his fellows, must excel them more in energy of will than in power of intellect."
  By: Jacob Burnap
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• "Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned."
  By: Edmund Burke
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