Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
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- It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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