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Famous quotes containing the word showing:

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.... He is the world’s eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)