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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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