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“The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character”
Proverb
“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”
Rita Mero
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”