Society already understands that the criminal is not he who washes our dirty linen in public, but he who dirties the linen.
- Vladimir Bukovsky (b.1932), Russian author. Stated on 5 January, 1972. Quoted in Radio Times magazine, 19 September, 1977.
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Crime, Vladimir Bukovsky
Blushing, Carlo Goldoni
Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.
- Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (c. 1750), I. 3.
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.
- Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (c. 1750), I. 3.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blushing
Language, Christian Nestell Bovee
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
- Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 7.
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- Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 7.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Language
Mind, James Allen
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh (1902)
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- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh (1902)
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