It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: nobility boast vain brag useless-talents lazyness high-class-style house-of-the-seven-gables
... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: men shame attitude reaction low gloom house-of-the-seven-gables crushed-spirit
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