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Updated: May 9, 2025
"What of that? You think it's right. Therefore, go ahead. Why quit a line of policy just because it obliges your employes? Don't be over-conscientious, son." "I've suspected for some time that the political news was being adroitly manipulated against the administration. Has Marrineal tried to ring you in on that?" "No; and he won't." "Why not?" "He knows that, in the main, I'm a Laird man.
It was made of stiff, iron stays, woven in with rough haircloth, both of which were made, so Mr. Legality said, by one Mr. Over-Conscientious Scruple who lives in the town of Sensitive. "Every move I made was retarded by that jacket. By and by sore places appeared where the end of the stays engaged my flesh. I met Mr.
She tried to listen to what it said, and then the answer came quickly enough, and told her that she had been unkind, that she had given needless pain, that she had broken a man's life for an over-conscientious scruple which had no real foundation. But then her conscience returned to the charge, refuting the slighting accusation, so that the confusion was renewed, and became worse than before.
After that he would or would not keep faith with him, as he chose. And as for Ralph, if he were really Robert Burnham's son, he would be rich enough at any rate, and if he were not that son he would not be entitled to wealth. There was no use, therefore, in being over-conscientious on his account.
At first I thought it was a steady development of character; but I admit that when she is unwell and out of spirits, she becomes just her old timid, over-conscientious self again. She's always been very easily influenced, very dependent, and now I hardly like to say such a thing of my own niece but I fear there's a touch of hysteria about her.
It has been alleged that the typical New Englander is afflicted with "a chronic inflammation of the moral sense." Such a malady does exist, though many a New Englander is bravely free from it, while it is not unknown in Alaska or Japan. From such an over-conscientious conscience, and from its incidents and its counterfeits, there is bred a redundancy of verbal moralising.
There can be no reasonable doubt that she was harassed as all over-conscientious people are with the fear and consciousness that her duties were not half done. How few of this class ever contemplate themselves or their works with anything like satisfaction!
Posh tells me that many owners of drifters considered that the Act applied to all craft, including fishing boats, and that great expense was undergone by some over-conscientious owners in fitting ventilating drums and shafts in accordance with the Act.
"And the over-conscientious and supersensitive father with millions and millions stored away in bursting money-bags somewhere or other. Oh, those money-bags, those money-bags, those money-bags!" "Truesdale, what do you mean? Are they adventurers? Are they after black-mail?" Truesdale threw back his head, closing his eyes and twirling his thumbs. "I knew them there; I know them here."
The insistent and over-conscientious habit of mind plays so large a part in the so-called occupation neuroses that a brief discussion of their nature may here be in place. The best-known form of this distressing malady is "writer's cramp."
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