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“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.”

Firsts Would Be Together Lasts Sin Company Shame

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?”

Wells May Company Shame Fellows Lays Faults Accidents Guides Multitudes Inconstancy

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?”

“Are you suggesting we pull a little good cop, bad cop scenario on him? And You're even letting me be the bad cop?" He bowed his head. "That, my pretera, is how much I love you." "You have never been sexier than at this very moment." "It is a shame we have so much company," he agreed quietly.”

Littles Moments Company Love You Shame Cop Scenarios Suggesting How Much I Love You

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.”

Ifs Knows Needs Important Company Five Shame Customers Unhappy Lasting Five Friends

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.”

Thinking Wells Stuff Company Records Shame Record Companies

Author:Marian McPartland

“Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.”

Christian Can Do Company Enemy Trouble Sea Havens Eternal Glory Shame Prison Crowds Harm Faithful Contempt Passages Palaces Reproach Dissolution Faithful Friends

Book:The Riches of Bunyan

Source: The Riches of Bunyan