After thoughtful deliberations with my family, I am announcing my decision to withdraw from the World Baseball Classic. When faced with the decision to choose between my country, the United States of America, and my Dominican heritage, I decided I will not dishonor either.
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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Dishonor!...Make a note of this...Dishonor, dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow!
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
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This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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