Accepting Reality Quotes

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Personality, Fancy, Accepting Reality

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

Personality, Accepting Reality, Persons

Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle' (1970) vol. 2