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“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”
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- Source:
- Ch. 6
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- c5276edfa5ff9386db371815624921b9639a34a065fadd021e671af3e9bc1b8f
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“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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