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Quote by Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

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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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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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