"There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor."
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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."
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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."
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"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
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"The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation."
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"Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity."
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"[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!"
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"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."
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"A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man."
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"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."
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"By indignities men come to dignities."
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"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity."
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"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel."
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"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."
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"Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure."
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