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Letter "P" » propriety
«Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.»
Author: Thomas Bowdler
(Man of letter, Philanthropist, Physician)
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aloud, expressions, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, propriety
«Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness»
«Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.»
«Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.»
«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.»
«Some people ... question the propriety of calling God by means of ... a multiplicity of names. But each name is indicative of only one aspect of Divinity. It denotes a single part of the Supreme Personality ... Every name is but a facet, a part, a ray of the Supreme.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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denote, denotes, facet, facets, indicative, indicative of, propriety, ray
«Men in bowlers and dark suits with their rolled-up umbrellas. Men full of propriety, calm and proud, neat and noble.»
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