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For a man’s character is a strangely fitted mosaic, and it is unsafe to assume that all his traits are of one piece, or inseparable in fact because they ought to be inseparable by logic.
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John Morley
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Morley uses a metaphor to illustrate the intricate and multifaceted nature of a person's character.
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