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More than two hundred districts within the limit of a single State, each with its self-approved code; these codes differing not alone each from the other, but presenting numberless instances of contradiction in themselves.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.

What an awful life of self-approved, stoical falsehood she had been living!

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

If so be death is a sleep, how much better to feel at the end, 'I die, but I die self-approved, and justified by self!'

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns