"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Hypocrite Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.”
“A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas -- on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -- unless he means something else, quite different -- is a rogue ...”
“I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.”
“I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.”
“One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.”
“There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.”
“it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.”
“I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.”

Source : Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

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