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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more

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Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is...more

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Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he ...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

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I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.