Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Temperament is the thermometer of character."
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Temperament
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Music inflames temperament."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"A person's fate is their own temper."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair."
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"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind."
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"I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side."
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"Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament."
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"Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance."
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