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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
[Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;
Etiam read more
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
[Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;
Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is read more
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of read more
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honor to disgrace's feet?
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at read more
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.