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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”

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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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