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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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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Shame is worse than death. – Proverb

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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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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera

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