Mark Twain Quotes About Shame
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
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Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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