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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and...more

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[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

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The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do wit...more

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This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go. The only problem was that my entire education, everything I had ever been told or had t...more

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There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted...more

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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that ...more