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She says, 'The vices of the world's nobler half in this day are feminine. We have to guard against 'half-conceptions of wisdom, hysterical goodness, an impatient charity' against the elementary state of the altruistic virtues, distinguishable as the sickness and writhings of our egoism to cast its first slough. Idea is there.
And you will probably show them all sorts of indiscreet kindnesses, but don't be too altruistic, my good Emily. The man is odious, and the girl looks like a native beauty. She rather frightens me." "I don't think Captain Osborn is odious," Emily answered. "And she is pretty, you know. She is frightened of us, really."
But she was soon bored, and had no conception of altruistic effort. A good-looking Persian cat is an ornamental piece of furniture in a house; but though fond of animals, I never succeeded in getting up an affection for Stoffles until the occurrence of the incident here to be related.
The English have no humour? a nephew of Lady Blachington's inquired of him, with polite pugnacity, and was cordially assured, that 'he vindicated them. 'And Altruistic! another specimen of the modern coinage, a classical Church dignitary, in grammarian disgust, remarked to a lady, as they passed. Colney pricked-up his ears.
She gave him a humorously exaggerated account of the prophylactic measures her mother had submitted her to the night before, and she concluded: "I'm awfully sorry mother's not at home mother and my sister Portia. They'd both like to thank you for looking after me last night. Because really, you did, you know." "There never was anything less altruistic in the world," he assured her.
"I could avoid that easily enough, if I had any kind of hope to support me!" Part Third "For there was no other girl, O bridegroom, like her!" It was a new idea the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life.
The fact is observed in these later times that the altruistic principles involved in these teachings contain the highest wisdom that they form the basis of a true social science, and that a high stage of civilization will never be reached until these principles are recognized as the foundation of human conduct Unselfishness, purity of life, and the brotherhood of man will never be realized so long as man shifts the responsibility of his wrong-doing upon another.
He was superintendent of the Sunday school. He was the storm-center of every altruistic effort in the town the greatest man there, because the most serviceable, tho he worked every day full time with his pick at his bread-and-butter job. The great people are so busy serving that they have little time to strut and pose in the show places. Few of them are "prominent clubmen."
It never entered my mind that anyone I knew could ever by any chance meet an author, or even hear one lecture although it was said that they did sometimes come west on altruistic educational journeys and that they sometimes reached our county town. I am told I do not know that it is true that I am one of the names on a present-day deck of Author cards.
She did not sympathize greatly with the new era opened up for the emancipated slaves; she had no ideal love of liberty; she was no broader and no more altruistic than the white people around her, to whom she had always looked up; and she sighed for the old days, because to her they had been the good days. Now, not only was her king dead, but the shield of his memory protected her no longer.
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