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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Herman Melville |

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Mary Catherine Bateson |

The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. T...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ralph Waldo Emerson |

It was not death he feared—it was the disgrace of death, and the misery of the ignominious preparations. He knew in his heart that heaven co...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Anthony Trollope |