Quote by Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dread

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

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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Age
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. – Washington Irving

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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. – 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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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. – Luigi Pirandello

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Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. – Denis Diderot

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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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He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. – Bible

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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The destruction of the poor is their poverty. – Bible

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There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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