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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I’m the same character, but I’m having more fun this season because I’m doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.