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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."

"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."

"Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient."
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"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."

"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."

"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."
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