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"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
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"Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient."
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"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
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"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."
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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
Clothes
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
Time
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
Fans
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Idea
"Live always in the best company when you read."
Company
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Illusion
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
Men
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
Love
"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."
Chance
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."
Men
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