[9급 국가직 영어 2011년 20번]

Character is a respect for human beings and the right to interpret experience differently. Character admits self-interest as a natural trait, but pins its faith on man's hesitant but heartening instinct to understand and support others. Character is allergic to tyranny, irritable with ignorance and always open to improvement. Character implies the ability to laugh wholeheartedly and weep unashamedly. Character is, above all, a tremendous humility before the facts ― an automatic alliance with truth even when that truth is bitter medicine.

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