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Disgrace

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“Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.”
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act IV, scene 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 (1790).
“The man that gloats over another man's disgrace and thinks himself raised in dignity by it, is unworthy of future bliss.”
— 1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 58-59
“And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet?”
— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 2, line 47.
“Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.”
— That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

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“Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.”
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act IV, scene 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 (1790).
“The man that gloats over another man's disgrace and thinks himself raised in dignity by it, is unworthy of future bliss.”
— 1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 58-59
“And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet?”
— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 2, line 47.
“Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.”
— That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.