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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
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She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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