| It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. -- Pliny The Younger |
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Pliny The YoungerEra:
61 |
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| The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. -- Rabindranath Tagore |
| Author:
Tagore, RabindranathEra:
1861 |
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| It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author:
Cowley, AbrahamEra:
1618 |
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