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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.