"Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it."
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"Misery and shame are nearly allied."
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"An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?"
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""That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.""
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"Shame must be accepted to be effective."
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"Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker."
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"Lovely place, shame about the people!"
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"It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life."
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"Shame has poor memory."
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"It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent."
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"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings."
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"Losse embraceth shame."
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"Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually."
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"Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame."
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"One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity."
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"Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane."
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"When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame."
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"Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious."
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"We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves."
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"We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?"
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