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Stoical, taciturn, proud of his physical prowess, he found all these qualities incarnated in his white companion.
Chapter IV 2010
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Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:
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Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:
Lance Mannion: 2009
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These are Stoic virtues, and Blair's sermons are full of the need to be Stoical.
Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century Broadie, Alexander 2009
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Stoical Exes: Sarah Larson isn't mad about being dumped by George Clooney; she's thankful for the career opportunities she's gotten out of dating him!
Morning Memo: Stoical Exes, Angry Managers, 'Asian Beauties' 2008
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Stoical Exes: Sarah Larson isn't mad about being dumped by George Clooney; she's thankful for the career opportunities she's gotten out of dating him!
Morning Memo: Stoical Exes, Angry Managers, 'Asian Beauties' 2008
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Station; which render us agreeable to the World, and the World to us; but live in a Stoical Dulness or humersome Stupidity.
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Happiness, to think it consisted in a dull Neglect, or Stoical Contempt of all Human Pleasures; or to imagine any true Felicity cou'd be had without its true Author, Woman.
Exilius 2008
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I endeavour'd to apply that Stoical Receipt, but found it very fallible.
Exilius 2008
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I said unto the fools, deal not so madly, and 'twas an old Stoical paradox, omnes stultos insanire, [179] all fools are mad, though some madder than others.
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