Word: self-respect
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...need not say that I regret to be compelled to take this action," wrote Lord Snowden to Mr. MacDonald in his letter of resignation, "for it severs our 40 years of close political association and cooperation. . . . But I cannot longer without loss of self-respect remain a member of a Government which is pursuing a policy that I believe is disastrous...
...Business troubles, his wife, a sick child, even golf had to go by the board when she summoned him. As her toils tightened Sherrill began to hate her, contemplated first suicide, then murder. He came close to committing both. But a lucky series of breaks gave him his self-respect again, gave him the strength to stand up against his vampire. When she saw her power over him was gone she went too. Sherrill, well-singed, told himself he would never take up with a firebrand again...
...incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are so accustomed to the Tammany Tiger that they prefer the smell of the beast to clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With these examples of popular complacence before him, Governor Roosevelt might well be tempted to dismiss summarily the petition to remove Walker from office, which he is expected to receive before the Democratic Convention...
...most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years in attempting it, and often only succeed in losing some of their self-respect...
...great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...