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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Guy de Maupassant
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Respectable people... What bastards!
Emile Zola
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There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.
Paul Broca
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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
Henry Adams
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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain
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While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.
Noam Chomsky
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Winning 9 games is very respectable.
Mark Richt
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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins
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It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
Karen Essex
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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
Lin Yutang
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A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.
Rajneesh
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I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
Mary Heaton Vorse
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You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?
Cynthia Voigt
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I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.
Malvina Reynolds
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Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
Dan Barker
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Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
Brian Greene
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I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
Callan McAuliffe
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Work only can keep even kings respectable.
Albert Pike
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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
A. A. Milne
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
Cormac McCarthy