To see this it needs but to contrast one whose self-regard has maintained bodily well-being with one whose regardlessness of self has brought its natural results; and then to ask what must be the contrast between two societies formed of two such kinds of individuals.
"The Five Great Philosophies of Life"
William de Witt Hyde
Through their very regardlessness the Pennies would have been apt to rout the Seminary-whose boys had given pledges to respectability, and who had to answer searching questions as to their personal appearance every evening-had it not been for stalwarts like McGuffie, whose father, being a horsedealer, did not apply an over strict standard of judgment to his son's manners or exploits, and Robertson, who lived in lodgings and, being a soldier's son, was supposed to be in a state of discipline for the Army.
"Young Barbarians"
Ian Maclaren
I had not Bob's fine natural regardlessness, for all my seniority and presumably superior knowledge of the world.
"No Hero"
E.W. Hornung