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If it were put into picture no one would ever believe it! I turn round and naturally I see a self-satisfied, full-fed paterfamilias, who delights in repeating some one else's silly statement as though it were his own. As for our dear country, the bourgeois paterfamilias looks upon it as though it were a roast turkey.
But May and Ida and Walter had always been the same, obstinate, self-satisfied, regarding everything he did as necessarily wrong.
He said that in a proud, self-satisfied, almost triumphant manner, and I felt profound pity, mingled with a feeling of vague contempt for this vainglorious and simple reproducer of his species, who spent his nights in his country house in uxorious pleasures.
It's yourself you're sorry for and what you'll have to endure live through. That's what you can't stand, and remain the sleek, self-satisfied rat you are. No, it will make earth a living hell for you; never a second, day or night, will you be able to forget if you really do love her.... And I believe you do I don't understand how a thing like you can love but it seems it can."
The coming of this radical of radicals before the bar of public opinion, clothed in his garb of avowed prejudice of the rankest sort, means that the self-satisfied isolation of the past is over, that even the radicals desire or see the need of sympathetic consideration from other portions of the human family decidedly a step forward for them.
Such people live a wholesome enough life; they make good soldiers, good officials, good men of business. But they are woefully complacent and self-satisfied. The schools develop a Spartan type, and I want Alec to be an Athenian. But the experiment will have to be made, because a man is at a disadvantage in ordinary life if he has not the public school bonhomie, courtesy, and common sense.
For one thing, they would make mighty fine eating for the family of that self-satisfied old blue heron. Freckles sat so quietly that soon the brim of his hat was covered with snake-feeders, rasping their crisp wings and singing while they rested. Some of them settled on the club, and one on his shoulder.
Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right. "What I want to know, George," the old gentleman said, after slowly smacking his first bumper "what I want to know is, how you and ah that little thing upstairs, are carrying on?" "I think, sir, it is not hard to see," George said, with a self-satisfied grin. "Pretty clear, sir. What capital wine!"
He turned away satisfied that he would carry off the coveted prize. He had nicked the nail. But Miller reckoned without his host. Betty had seen the result of his shot and the self-satisfied smile on his face.
In fancy I could see them assembled round the little card-tables the well-fed bodies, the well-cared-for skins, the elaborate toilets, the useless jeweled hands comfortable, secure, self-satisfied, idle, always idle, always playing at the imitation games like their own pampered children, to be sheltered in the nurseries of wealth their whole lives through.
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