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Published: 02.11.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'The Secret of Character', 1.
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Having only a vague conception about the idea of the above mentioned headline I consulted in the first place my dictionaries. This was my fault. My English-Latvian dictionary gave eleven meanings of the word “character”, the big English-Russian even more. With a dispersion of meaning between “temper” and “secret symbols”. A simple mathematical calculation showed that dealing with all of these meanings would be a too time-consuming enterprise. So I decided to be satisfied with one.
But which of them?
Somewhere I have read that a person’s character mirrors his soul exactly the same way as a mirror reflects this person’s appearance as much as you like.…

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