The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

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Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

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She (Brown) cannot hear. She's deaf. She opened her mouth, your honor, only to show you she wasn't chewing gum.

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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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