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«Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. [It] can make a man seem a little distant or aloof -- but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.»
«But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.»
«My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.»
«A person, whose heart is pure, remains untouched by 'pain' just as an assiduous person remains aloof from sinful deeds.»
«To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .»
«Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.»
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