His noble funeral seems to me rather to proclaim the fact that our worst meannesses cannot deprive us of the dignity of that pity which is due to human nature standing by the brink of an open grave.
Politics," he said, "is the combination of individual meannesses for the general good.
I have seen your suppressed indignation many a time when your father's meannesses have revolted you.
And whilst he has been acquiring a full and perfect understanding of that sum of small and great meannesses which constitutes fashionable life, he has been influenced by Vautrin's satirical cynicism.
In addition to the great indispensables of tastes, manners, and opinions, based on intelligence and cultivation, and all those liberal qualities that mark his caste, he cannot and does not stoop to meannesses of any sort.
In their native debasement, they furnish material for usurpation to work upon and with; raised here and there into fitful eminence, they infect the class they intrude upon withmeannesses not its own.
In the theatre the meannesses and jealousies that clog human existence under all forms are focused and exposed to the glare of publicity, whereas in the wide world they are lost among the crowd.
It was not long before Wagner began to hate the shams and petty meannesses of the stage with ten-fold the intensity he had at first been bewitched by it.
She was reflecting on the meannessesof Dick, and on other meannesses with which he had nothing to do.
Voltaire's intimacy with the Great Frederick was destroyed it had for a while done honor to both of them; it had ended by betraying the pettinesses and the meannesses natural to the king as well as to the poet.
The slight differences, the little characteristic meannesses or felicities that distinguished one from another, did not count for very much in his estimation.
Faults she might have in plenty, but she was above meannesses and mercenary calculation.
A fawning sycophancy or little meannesses were unknown; social intercourse was unrestrained because all were honorable, and that reserve which so plainly speaks suspicion of your company was never seen.
It would, perhaps, be better to say that in the company of Ferrati, the underlying meannesses vanished; the affection Valentini had for him was the one pure, disinterested love of his selfish nature.
Of course, we are mean, too; but happily a good part of our meannesses are underground--buried with our ancestors.
The least spark of loving-kindness during those years would have been more to me than all the petty meannesses necessary to build up a fortune.
A millionaire, dear, is nothing but a million meannesses and they all do exactly as they are told.
The heroic ideal of epic is not attained by a process of abstraction and separation from the meannesses of familiar things.
The Sagas differ from all other "heroic" literatures in the larger proportion that they give to the meannesses of reality.
Money isn't worth such a struggle,--not to speak of themeannesses to which we should have to condescend.
They might therefore lose eighteen months' labor in flattery and meannesses of all sorts.
This unfortunate woman subsequently lost her reason; undoubtedly her husband's meannessesand his forbidding qualities contributed to the process.
It was a common saying of him "when he paid out a cent he wanted a cent in return;" and as to his abject meannesses we forbear relating the many stories of him.
And what vulgar pride and narrownesses and meannesses and vanities and uglinesses of life, in mass and class and individual, are now impossible!
I am guilty, I own, of meannesses which poverty unavoidably brings with it: my reflections are filled with repentance for my imprudence, but not with any remorse for being a villain; that may be a character you unjustly charge me with.
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