uncongeniality

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Solitude is infinitely preferable to uncongeniality, and is bliss when compared with repulsiveness, so I was thoroughly glad when I got rid of my escort and set out upon the prairie alone.

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  • Originality ever links with it something of uncongeniality--a feeling somewhat akin to the egotism of that one who, when asked why he talked so much to himself, replied--for two reasons: the one, that he liked to talk to a sensible man; the other, that he liked to hear a sensible man talk. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Something there was about incompatibility of temperament and uncongeniality, and all that kind of thing which wicked men and women parade before the world when weary of the tie which God has distinctly said shall not be torn asunder It is not our intention to follow the suit through any of its details, and we shall only say that it progressed rapidly, while poor, unsuspicious Guy was working hard to retrieve in some way his lost fortune, and to fit up a pleasant home for the childish wife who was drifting away from him. —  Miss McDonald
  • Solitude is infinitely preferable to uncongeniality, and is bliss when compared with repulsiveness, so I was thoroughly glad when I got rid of my escort and set out upon the prairie alone. —  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • This repugnance arose not from the disparity between their years; it was rather that nameless uncongeniality which does not forbid friendship, but is irreconcilable with love. —  Lucretia — Volume 05
  • Originality ever links with it something of uncongeniality -- a feeling somewhat akin to the egotism of that one who, when asked why he talked so much to himself, replied -- for two reasons: the one, that he liked to talk to a sensible man; the other, that he liked to hear a sensible man talk. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
 

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