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“The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.”

Book:What's Wrong with the World

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“She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.” Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?” Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not dignified?” she asked. When Fin looked up, Jeannot had an eyebrow cocked high and one side of his mouth was curled in amusement. “Where you are concerned, much requires redefinition.”

Dignity Womanhood Witty Banter

Book:Fiddler's Green

Source: Fiddler's Green

“Adversity often defines dignity.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.”

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Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.”

Culture Development Travel Dignity Labour

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.”

Culture Dignity Perseverance Persistence Labour Diligence

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“No matter where you live, live with dignity.”

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Author:Eraldo Banovac

“But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentiveness of eyebrow pencils is perhaps a picture of the very sort of bodily care our embodied God would have us cultivate, weather in illness or wellness, whether our bodies are in the throes of ecstasy or the throes of pain.”

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Book:Mudhouse Sabbath

Source: Mudhouse Sabbath

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