"The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted."
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"My feelings for you shame me into silence."
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"Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed."
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"If not yet lost to all the sense of shame."
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"Less shame a greater fault would palliate."
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"There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees."
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"Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion."
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"Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake."
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"Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old."
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"There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor."
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"O shame, where is thy blush?"
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"Past all shame, so past all truth."
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"You preserve your shame but you kill your glory."
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"The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance."
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"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory."
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"The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity."
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"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame."
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"And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn."
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"Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame."
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."
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