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There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
The enquiry in England is not whether a man has talents & genius, but whether he is passive & polite & a virtuous ass & obedient t ...
Since when was genius found respectable?
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful lever ...
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certai ...
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
Decency ... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amoun ...
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 y ...
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