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"Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?"

Disgrace
Disgrace
Disgrace is a 1999 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.
"Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?"
"Hominum immortalis est infamia; Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam."
"And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgraces feet?"
"The man that gloats over another mans disgrace and thinks himself raised in dignity by it, is unworthy of future bliss."
"Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati."
"Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace."