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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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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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Character is plot, plot is character.

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I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and w...more

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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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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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 an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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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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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promi...more

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Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they ...more

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Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely slew it--but at fifteen it made him consider hims...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