William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis (1848 – 1850), preface.
[W]e judge of a man’s character, after long frequenting his society, not by one speech, or by one mood or opinion, or by one day’s talk, but by the tenor of his general bearing and conversation.…
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