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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
CHARLES DICKENS, Oliver Twist
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
ARTHUR MILLER, "Tragedy and the Common Man"
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.
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