"In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended."
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"Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking."
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"In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust."
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"Character is that which can do without success."
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"Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls."
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"There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties."
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"Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will."
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"It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated."
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"Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism."
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"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all."
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"There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding"
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"Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs."
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"Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character."
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"For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"
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"The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment."
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"We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency."
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"The victories of character are instant, and victories for all."
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"That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart."
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"A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing."
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"A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune."
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