#ashamed

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If you do something wrong, do not keep looking back and feeling ashamed of it its what is happening now that matters ↗

— Rory Leech

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest ↗

— William Faulkner

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I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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