"It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

— Mark Twain