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decorous
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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«Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, decorous, extravagant, monotony
«Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, decorous, extravagant, monotony
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Country
| Keywords:
courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian