WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:46:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Volkart, Edmund H. – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Volkart, Edmund H. -- The Angel’s Dictionary: A Modern Tribute to Ambrose Bierce (1986) https://wist.info/volkart-edmund-h/41501/ https://wist.info/volkart-edmund-h/41501/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:16:25 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41501 RESPECTABILITY, n. The social status of people whose sins haven’t quite caught up with them.


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