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“If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, I said. But I will love you like no other can.”
“Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind must be attached to an empty sound, when every day's experience proves that birth is disgrac...”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient...”
“Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who for...”
“Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.”
“No one can disgrace us but ourselves.”
“If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace,” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.”
