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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name."	Evan Esar
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."	Thomas Jefferson
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."	Richard Hofstadter
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality."	William R(ichard) Allen
"Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."	Faith Baldwin
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Helen Adams Keller
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."	James Albert Michener
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited."	Rose Dorothy Freeman
"Character is what can do without success."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is what you are in the dark."	Dwight Lyman Moody
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."	Helen Gahagan Douglas
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."	Phillips Brooks
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart."	Henry Clay
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