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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to…
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which…
— John Milton
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In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human…
— Norbert Wiener
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If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of…
— George Henry Borrow
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
— Aldous Huxley
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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
— Elia Kazan
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
— Alexander Pope
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display…
— Oscar Wilde
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