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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]
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.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
