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“For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”

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Author:Graham Moore

“Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'”

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Author:Kumi Naidoo

“By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.”

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence