The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
They laughed at order and at law, but the frown of power dejected, and the eye of wisdom abashed them.
Brideshead Revisited
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name, Charles Ryder. For the rest, my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. On second thoughts, one emotion remains my own, alone among the borrowed and the second-hand, as pure as that faith from which I am still in flight.
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