Quote by James Thurber
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. – James Thurber

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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. – E. M. Forster

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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. – Washington Irving

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana

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