“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says “mine, mine,” more fiercely.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“The mind is not a hermit’s cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”

Charles Horton Cooley
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