Famous quotes containing the words character and/or states:
“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victims cheque-books.”
—Silas Weir Mitchell (18291914)
“It may be said that the elegant Swanns simplicity was but another, more refined form of vanity and that, like other Israelites, my parents old friend could present, one by one, the succession of states through which had passed his race, from the most naive snobbishness to the worst coarseness to the finest politeness.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
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