Deference Quotes
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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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If there's one thing the international community should do, if only out of deference because he won the election, is to take seriously his arguments that coca products have a place in the international commodities market.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
