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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is as

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. – Robin G. Collingwood

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

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