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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Lawana Blackwell
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The government prevails on the CBI not to appeal. In the face of this attempt to scuttle the investigations, I think one's conscience should question as to the propriety of what the government and the (Congress) party have been doing and certainly not question the merits of the case.

Arun Jaitley
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Francis Herbert Bradley
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Jack Layton
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The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

James Hogg
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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Thomas Bowdler
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It's a wide open market, ... Cisco will be in the game, but what's gone for them is the opportunity to have a dominant propriety solution.

Jon Oltsik
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Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Horatio Nelson
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