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One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. -- Samuel Foote
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. -- Elia Kazan
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. -- Alexander Pope
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ... -- Ana Castillo
Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. -- Rudyard Kipling
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. -- Aldous Huxley
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. -- Agnes Repplier
If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. -- George Henry Borrow
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul. -- John Milton
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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