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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed read more
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
[Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet
non pudebit.]
The only shame is to have none
The only shame is to have none
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a read more
He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
