#reproach

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#educational #good #hands #illiteracy #illiterate

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. ↗

— Maria Monk

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The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture? ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#allows #candidates #honest #law #lie

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #care #endeavors #every #every man

It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#beyond #driving #drunk #go #long

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#deserved #may #reproach #resentment #show

As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong. ↗

— Kevin Thomas

#appearance #even #give #going #leader