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disgrace
«Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb
«Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another»
Author: Xenophanes
(Poet)
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adulteries, ascribed, deceiving, disgrace, Hesiod, homer, mortals, stealing
«In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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disgrace, insolent, pities
«CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons --including all the assassins --entertain grave misgivings.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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anarchist, anarchists, assassins, dinner table, disgrace, entertain, expediency, fork, knife, misgiving, misgivings, misgovernment, penalty, regarding, repast, supplies, The Assassin, The Assassins
«A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apotheosis, asks, cherish, compliment, disgrace, expecting, incessantly, pays, religiously, to each other
«How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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All American, American, American government, answer, associated, associating, behave, disgrace, disgraced, disgraces, government, How does, The American
«Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.»