"A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side." — George Eliot

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as… — John Adams
• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
• Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for… — Giacomo Casanova
• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:… — Margaret Cavendish
• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. — Oswald Chambers
• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value… — Chanakya
• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas
• You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox
• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington
• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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