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Belief (n.) is, for Jordan's unimpassioned woman, complete rather than strong: she adopts rather than believes, ignores rather than disbelieves, and never asks or doubts.
A Redeemer (n.) by profession demands that society be pleased; if it will not be pleased it must be astonished; if neither, it must be pestered and shocked.
Self-importance (n.) has an incisive formula for everything put before it — either the thing is not true, or everybody knows it already; in its sky there is not room for two suns.
Society (n.) is summer to the unemotional type and home is winter: if the door opens and a visitor is announced, the transformation is instant.
Vanity (n.) mistakes busyness for energy and chatter for eloquence, and would sooner chair a committee of three in public than save a nation unknown.