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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
Diarist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Writer
Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
Everything
Manly
Mean
Decency
Thing
Honour
Wanting
Shame
Sacred
Means
Found
Indefinable

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