Shame quotes
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"A lot of Manchester now - it's creating jobs and that's great, but some of the character is getting sucked out. There's good and bad, but our personal perspective is that it's just a shame. You in Chicago protect your buildings, we don't have that. You'll find a good building will get replaced by a horrible looking thing."
"I feel non-stop Brit shame!"
"It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy."
"Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame."
"Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind."
"A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar."
"Out of the huts of history's shame I rise."
"Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance."
