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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my bo

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

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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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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. – George Santayana

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

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

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