"Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame."
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"This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them."
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"The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it."
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"In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world."
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"There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour."
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"When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it."
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"The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?"
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"Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric."
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"Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men."
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"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."
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"Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me."
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"If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame."
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"Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with."
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"Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change."
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"Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to."
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"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."
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"Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too."
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"Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals."
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"I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that."
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"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority."
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