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"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."
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"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."
"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
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