self-respect
Example Sentences
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Self-respect never injures your standing with your employer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Self-respect is lost, and with it go the best qualities of the soul.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
Self-respect grows on what it feeds on, my dear, and I thought maybe if he was a judge”–he looked into the anxious eyes of his wife and went on–“that might hold him!”
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
Its antagonist must, therefore, be sought at the external or lateral surface, as far below the horizontal division, as Self-respect is above it, and as far forward as Self-respect is backward.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Self-respect on Captain Coté's part demanded that he should pay.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton
