Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Following the Equator
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. The Nightingale and the Rose
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. Old Curiosity Shop
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