Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.
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I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.
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Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands
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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense
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'In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.'
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
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In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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"In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me."
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