"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."

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"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."

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"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

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"Hate is for sissies. Fight makes gentleman."

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"My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"You cannot honor God without honoring people first."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Serving others is a high honour in the spiritual realm."

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"As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title "Martin Luther King Jr. of India."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future - verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers' gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Not whence you came shall henceforth constitute your honor, but whither you are going! Your will and your foot which has a will to go over and beyond yourselves - that shall constitute your new honor."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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