"A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds."
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"People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all."
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
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"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it."
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"Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"Be ashamed to catch yourself idle."
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"So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed."
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"Do not be ashamed of help."
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"I never did anything I'm really ashamed of."
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"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right."
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"Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood"
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"Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of."
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"If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear."
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"It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed."
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"Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them."
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"Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others."
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"Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted."
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"Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed."
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"Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it."
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