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Self-Satisfaction
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“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”
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“One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.”
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“We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.”
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“... self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full-blown ... ”
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“[On Margot Asquith's autobiography:] Never before or since has any book been so much relished by its author.”
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“'Each has his fault,' we readily allow, / To this Decree, our dearest friends must bow; / One is too careless, one is too correct, / All, save our own sweet self, has some defect ...”
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“Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.”
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“Bucky was clearly one of those smug people who don't like to be around failure, she thought. They were often the same people who'd made it with a great deal of help from their relatives.”
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“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”
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“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his own wit.”
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“There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.”
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“A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”