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«Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.»
Author: Thomas Bowdler (Man of letter, Philanthropist, Physician) | Keywords: aloud, expressions, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, propriety
«Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: becomes, propriety, rudeness, rules, Rules of, straightforwardness, The Rules
«Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.»
Author: Emma Goldman | Keywords: comments, Don, Don Juan, elopement, Juan, moans, moonlight, propriety, rope, Songs of, Venus, yardstick
«Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Novelist) | Keywords: cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: employment, evince, pleasantness, propriety
«Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: demonic, indulging, liquor, propriety
«Some people ... question the propriety of calling God by means of ... a multiplicity of names. But each name is indicative of only one aspect of Divinity. It denotes a single part of the Supreme Personality ... Every name is but a facet, a part, a ray of the Supreme.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: denote, denotes, facet, facets, indicative, indicative of, propriety, ray
«Men in bowlers and dark suits with their rolled-up umbrellas. Men full of propriety, calm and proud, neat and noble.»
Author: Thomas Merton | Keywords: bowler, Bowlers, neat, propriety, rolled-up, rolled, suits, umbrellas
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