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telescopic philanthropy—bountiful love for abstract humanity combined with extreme stinginess toward the individuals he knew personally.
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
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