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Crime, Vladimir Bukovsky

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. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Crime

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. 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. 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) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mind