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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Richelieu (act IV, sc. 1) The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 331) Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? - William Cowper, Hope (l. 316) No one can disgrace us but ourselves. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.] - Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia), Fables (III, 11, 7) Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia; Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Persa (III, 1, 27) Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. - Marquise de Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet? - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at I, ii)
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