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Letter "M" » meanness
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.»
«False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| Keywords:
admires, avert, averted, averting, averts, false face, frailties, frailty, handled, hides, meanness, quarters, recognized, remote, touched, unsociable
«Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
conspicuously, disgrace, meanness, represents, ugliness
«Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
features, meanness, refine, sensuality
«Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom»
«There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.»
«All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell»
«As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Errors
| Keywords:
consults, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, meanness, retract, retracted, retracts
«How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
horrible, hypocrite, inexpressible, malignant, meanness, mischievous
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