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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. ↗

— Thomas More

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I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. ↗

— Quintilian

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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. ↗

— Ted Rall

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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

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