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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

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

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

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.