Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 20, 1891)Anton Chekhov
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.
Ben Jonson
Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
Orson Scott Card
Such impudence! I am a member and the chairwoman of the Academy of Sciences. You cannot talk to me in such a way!
Elena Ceausescu
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
Jay Gould
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.John Dryden
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