Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sinc...erity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and... goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »