#honorable

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. ↗

— Horace

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#friendship #give #honorable #members #nations

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. ↗

— Max Lerner

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Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world. ↗

— John Linder

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I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. ↗

— Rooney Mara

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#effort #him #honorable #jesus #john

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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