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«As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else- fallen angels - we have indeed fallen far»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Considering, decency, fallen angel, modesty, simian, simians
«I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency»
«Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good»
«God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.»
«Do not overestimate the decency of the human race»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, human race, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,Emblems right meet of decency does yield.»
«Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
conspiracy, conspiracy of silence, decency, indecencies, indecency
«He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.»
«A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.»
«Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.»
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