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“Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.”

“Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.”

Littles Values Ability Virtue Honor Integrity Superiors Estimation

Author:Abigail Adams

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”

Men Character Honor Morality Superiors Honour Honored Superior Man

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.”

Should Mean Said Lord Cutting Talent Missing Honor Superiors Spares Flocks Composing Gowns Forsaken Cutting Down

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

“[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.”

Men Humans Ideas Certain Honor Madness Mad Accepted Superiors Madmen Asylums Forfeit Nastiness Misunderstood Genius

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.”

Knows Way Inspirational Pain Suffering Compassion Honor Train Superiors Pity Touch Someone

Author:Stephen Levine