Fliegentöter

"Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a pin?"
My characteristics are solidity, practicality, extreme determination and strength of will - no one will ever drive me, but I will willingly and loyally follow a leader I trust. I am stable, balanced, conservative and a lover of peace possessing all the best qualities of the bourgeoisie. I have a sense of material values and physical possessions, respect for property and a horror of falling into debt. Mentally, I am keen-witted and practical more often than intellectual, but apt to become fixed in my opinions through my preference for following accepted and reliable patterns of experience. My character is generally dependable, steadfast, prudent, just, firm and unshaken in the face of difficulties. My vices arise from my virtues, going to extremes on occasion, such as sometimes being too slavish to the conventions I admire. On rare occasions I may be obstinately and exasperatingly self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid, ultraconservative, argumentative, querulous bores, stuck in a self-centered rut. I may develop a brooding resentment through nursing a series of injuries received and, whether my characters are positive or negative, I need someone to stroke my ego with a frequent, "Well Done!" I'm usually not this extreme though. I am faithful and generous with friends and have a great capacity for affection, but rarely make friends with anyone outside my social rank, to which I am excessively faithful.
Although my physical appearance may belie it, I have a strong aesthetic taste, enjoying art, beauty and music. Allied to my taste for all things beautiful is my love for the good things of life pleasure, comfort, luxury and good food and wine and I may have to resist the temptation to over indulgence.