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He had said that he wanted to improve his mind, but he would have felt a certain embarrassment, a certain shame, even–a false shame, possibly– if he had caught himself looking intellectually into the mirror. Neither in this nor in any other respect had Newman a high sense of responsibility; it was his prime conviction that a man’s life should be easy, and that he should be able to resolve privilege into a matter of course. The world, to his sense, was a great bazaar, where one might stroll about and purchase handsome things; Fulled by haters shirt. but he was no more conscious, individually, of social pressure than he admitted the existence of such a thing as an obligatory purchase.

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He had not only a dislike, but a sort of moral mistrust, of uncomfortable thoughts, and it was both uncomfortable and slightly contemptible to feel obliged to square one’s self with a standard. One’s standard was the ideal of one’s own good-humored prosperity, the prosperity which enabled one to give as well as take.