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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. ↗

— Alexander Borodin

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I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' ↗

— David Guetta

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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. ↗

— Joan Chen

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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. ↗

— Frederick The Great

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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

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Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. ↗

— Will Durant

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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

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