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Embarrassment
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“ ... I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.”
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“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation — at least so it seemed to me ...”
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“... nobody ever dies of an indignity.”
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“Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.”
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“Tom was feeling more and more like the Prodigal Son and did not like it, as indeed we daresay the Prodigal Son himself did not like it either. For to have to eat fatted calf when you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself and only want to slink in and not be noticed must be a severe trial; not to speak of one's Good Brother.”
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“I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers' ...”
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“I never think embarrassment is a trivial emotion.”
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“We usually remember best what has caused us the greatest embarrassment ... ”
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“There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.”
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“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”
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“... they were women of the world, and so dreaded an embarrassment more than they did sin ...”
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“... in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.”
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“... use as few parentheses as possible; it is a clumsy way of disposing of a sentence, and often embarrasses the reader.”