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He that has but impudence, To all things has a fair pretence; And put among his wants but shame, To all the world may lay his claim. - Samuel Butler (1) With that dull, rooted, callous impudence, Which, dead to shame, and ev'ry nicer sense, Ne'er blushed, unless in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. - Charles Churchill The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. - Henry Fielding There is no better provision for life than impudence and a brazen face. - Menander Impudence is no virtue; yet able to beggar them all; being for the most part in good plight, when the rest starve, and capable of carrying her followers up to the highest preferments; as useful in a court as armor in a camp. - Sir Thomas Osborne What! canst thou say all this and never blush? - William Shakespeare A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least sense of it. - Sir Richard Steele
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