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I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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