Charles Horton Cooley

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    By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)