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"What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend."
"What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?"
"Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness."
"Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt."
"I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical."
"Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love."
"I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect."
"I respect a woman too much to marry her."
"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college"
"Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food."
"Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them."
"The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men"
"It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves."
"He that respects not is not respected."
"Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present."
"Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism."
"We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another."
"The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects."
"I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural."
"If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?"
