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Unselfishness See also Dedication. Arden, Enoch returned castaway; keeps identity secret from wife to preserve her “new life” happiness. [Br. Lit.: Enoch Arden] founded order to nurse sick, teach young. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 58] composed eloquent love letters for another. [Fr. Lit.: Cyrano de Bergerac] allows himself to be guillotined in place of Charles Darnay. [Br. Lit.: Dickens A Tale of Two Cities] ill-paid clerk; uncomplainingly supports large family. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol] generosity to daughters caused his own poverty. [Fr. Lit.: Père Goriot] |
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| That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure -- if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence. Wilcox, if quieter than in Germany, is sweeter than ever, and I never saw anything like her steady unselfishness, and the best of it is that the others do not take advantage of her. One of the things that impressed itself upon me deeply, the second year, was the unselfishness of the teachers. |
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Unselfishness
