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• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Office, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Architecture, Intention

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

  Charles Sumner

  Philosophy, War, Political

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
  Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
  I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
  allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

  Rakim

  Drama, Son, Hip Hop

  Song: The Saga Begins, Album: The 18th Letter

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• General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

  James Longstreet

  War, Fighting, Term

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• Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Employment, Affair

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

  Maria Theresa

  Men, Race, Honorable Man

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• I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

  David Petersen

  Meaningful, Essentials, Hunters

  David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango

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• If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

  Lady Gaga

  Home, Fighting, Prejudice

  "Senate to vote on taking up 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal" by Ted Barrett and Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2010.

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• In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

  Gina Gershon

  Sides, Sleazy, Profession

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• Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

  Ansel Elgort

  Beautiful, Love You, Grateful

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• The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to come to dwell here in this mortal state. All the honor and glory that can come to men and women is but a dim thing whose luster shall fade in comparison to the high honor, the eternal glory, the ever-enduring happiness that shall come to the woman who fulfils the first great duty and mission that devolves upon her to become the mother of the sons and daughters of God

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Mother, Sorrow

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• Compromise is an honorable word.

  John Dingell

  Compromise

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  George Eliot

  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.

  Nathan Hale

  Expectations, Wish, Rewards

  "Life of Captain Nathan Hale". Book by Isaac William Stuart, p. 94, 1856.

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• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, Integrity, Government

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• Cartooning is an honorable thing

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist

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• So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Envelopes, Pushing, Exaggeration

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

  Tamora Pierce

  Character, Needs, Tested

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• ... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

  Dale Spender

  Women, Long, Tradition

  Dale Spender (1983). “Feminist theorists: three centuries of key women thinkers”, Pantheon

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• Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

  Edmund Burke

  Sweet, Men, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

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• Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  "Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,

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