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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Born: Dec 4, 1795
Died: Feb 5, 1881

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Decorum, Necessity

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Albert Camus, Aristotle, Confucius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Plato, Socrates, Sun Tzu

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Thomas Carlyle
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Abbie Hoffman
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Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age. Elizabeth Flock
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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. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. Ivan Glasenberg
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I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. Kathy Griffin
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This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that. Michael Kelly
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo
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