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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
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"To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor."
"An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth."
"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."
"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
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