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«Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career»
«They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.»
«The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.»
«Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death»
«Since when was genius found respectable?»
«Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.»
Author: Thomas Mann (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Respect | Keywords: decent, My Family, respectable
«Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.»
«There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation»
«Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.»
«Men are respectable only as they respect»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Men, Respect | Keywords: respectable

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