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• Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

  Thomas Bowdler

  Expression, Literature

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• Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

  Joseph Lancaster

  School, Female, Might

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.153

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• IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Writing, Topics, Becoming

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43

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• I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Work, Organization

  'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) ch. 13

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Drinking, Compassion, Vices

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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

  Regina Maria Roche

  Punishment, Deviation, Conventions

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• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

  Patrick Henry

  Real, Gun, Differences

  Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Sex, Writing

  Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870

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• Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

  John Milton

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750

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• Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Missing, Logic

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Memories, Mean, Views

  "How to teach ... philosophy" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

  F. H. Bradley

  Neighbor, Persons, Seems

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• I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

  Eric Clapton

  Real, People, Needs

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• If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Government, Safety, Justice

  Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life and Writings”, p.386

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• Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Suits

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Manners, Refinement, Strengthening

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• It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Scarcity, Thirst, Effects

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sea, Dutch

  Andrew Marvell (1872). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell...”, p.243

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• It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

  Horace

  Influence, Grapes, Cato

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• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Waiting, Annoying

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• Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Language, Sometimes

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America, a nationality in Eastern Europe, and in Palestine an actualized nation.

  Milton Steinberg

  Mean, Israel, Europe

  "The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow". Book by Gil Troy, 2018.

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• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  William Howard Taft

  Art, Views, Mind

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• No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Responsibility, Men

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.339

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