#disgraced

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ↗

— John Ruskin

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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

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