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Quotes about respectability
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. (Blige Mary)
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. (Blige Mary)
Respect the burden. (Blige Mary)
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. (Blige Mary)
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Respect is love in plain clothes. (Blige Mary)
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Blige Mary)
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. (Blige Mary)
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. (Blige Mary)
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? (Blige Mary)
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. (Blige Mary)
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. (Blige Mary)
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. (Blige Mary)
Men are respectable only as they respect. (Blige Mary)
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. (Blige Mary)
I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard! (Blige Mary)
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. (Blige Mary)
The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. (Blige Mary)
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. (Blige Mary)
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. (Blige Mary)
Respect a man, he will do it the more. (Blige Mary)
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. (Blige Mary)
I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose. (Blige Mary)
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind. (Blige Mary)
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. (Blige Mary)
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. (Blige Mary)
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