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It is a faulty use of the term self-respect, when they really mean keeping up appearances before others. A true self-respect is that feeling inside a man, call it conscience if you wish, which keeps him from giving way to bestial impulses and dishonest action.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 1 : Uplift Character > # 339